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• Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?

  C. S. Lewis

  Summer, Daughter, War

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.113, Harper Collins

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• Thou water turn'st to wine, fair friend of life; Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of Thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again.

  Richard Crashaw

  Sweet, Art, Wine

  Richard Crashaw, Francis Quarles (1857). “The poetical works of Richard Crashaw and Quarles' Emblems”, p.15

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• True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

  John Donne

  Love, Time, Writing

  John Donne (1993). “Selected Poems”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?

  T. S. Eliot

  Hope, Men, Eagles

  T.S. Eliot (2011). “The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot”, p.78, Faber & Faber

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• Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Generosity, Envy, Virtue

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.450, Collector's Library

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• Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.

  Milan Kundera

  Tombstone, Flower, Garden

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• He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.

  Gerhard Tersteegen

  Kings, Temptation, Soul

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• To judge from the history of mankind, we shall be compelled to conclude, that the fiery and destructive passions of war, reign in the human breast, with much more powerful sway, than the mild and beneficent sentiments of peace.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Peace, Powerful, War

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2015). “The Federalist Papers: A Collection of Essays Written in Favour of the New Constitution”, p.159, Coventry House Publishing

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• Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

  Alain-Rene Lesage

  Taken, Giving, Enthusiasm

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• You can hear the footsteps of God when silence reigns in the mind.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  God, Silence, Meditation

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• In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

  Joseph de Maistre

  Arms, Kingdoms, Violence

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• To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Leadership, Society, Friendless

  'Prometheus Unbound' (1820) act 2, scene 4, l. 47

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• All things are sold: the very light of heaven is venal; earth's unsparing gifts of love, the smallest and most despicable things that lurk in the abysses of the deep, all objects of our life, even life itself, and the poor pittance which the laws allow of liberty, the fellowship of man, those duties which his heart of human love should urge him to perform instinctively, are bought and sold as in a public mart of not disguising selfishness, that sets on each its price, the stamp-mark of her reign.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Money, Heart

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1853). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.27

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• Ignorance has been well represented under the similitude of a dungeon, where, though it is full of life, yet darkness and silence reign. But in society the bars and locks have been broken; the dungeon itself is demolished; the prisoners are out; they are in the midst of us. We have no security but to teach and renovate them.

  Horace Mann

  Ignorance, Broken, Silence

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.118

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• I am as sure as I am of the fact of Christ's reign, that a comprehensive and centralised system of national education, separated from religion, as is now commonly proposed, will prove the most appalling enginery for the propagation of anti-Christian and atheistic unbelief and of anti-social nihilistic ethics, social and political, which this sin-rent world has ever seen.

  Archibald Alexander Hodge

  Christian, Education, Political

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• Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

  Richard Leakey

  Military, Distance, Police

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• A shout that tore hell's concave, and beyond / Frightened the reign of Chaos and old Night.

  John Milton

  Night, Chaos, Hell

  John Milton (1903*). “Poetical Works”

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• A story, in which native humour reigns, Is often useful, always entertains; A graver fact, enlisted on your side, May furnish illustration, well applied; But sedentary weavers of long tales Give me the fidgets, and my patience fails.

  William Cowper

  Illustration, Your Side, Long

  William Cowper (1855). “The complete poetical works of William Cowper, with life and critical notice of his writings”, p.86

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• The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Ankh, Olaf

  Terry Pratchett (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• I would rather be a serf in a poor man's house and be above ground than reign among the dead.

  Homer

  Death, Suicide, Men

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• Nature, like a loving mother, is ever trying to keep land and sea, mountain and valley, each in its place, to hush the angry winds and waves, balance the extremes of heat and cold, of rain and drought, that peace, harmony and beauty may reign supreme.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Beauty, Mother, Peace

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1887). “History of Woman Suffrage”

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• The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view, all trifling, or artful play of little lights, or an attention to a variety of tints is to be avoided; a quietness and simplicity must reign over the whole work, to which a breadth of uniform and simple color will very much contribute.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Simple, Light, Air

  Joshua Reynolds (1835). “The Literary works of sir Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy”, p.349

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• ...the great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy, neither discipline for the mind, nor curb for the passions, and which, under the pretext of freedom and human dignity, would bring back to the world (if such a Church could overcome) the reign of legalized cunning and force, and the oppression of the weak, and of all those who toil and suffer. [...] Indeed, the true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries, nor innovators: they are traditionalists.

  Pope Pius X

  Country, Powerful, True Friend

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• He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!

  Tom Peters

  Work, Prototype

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• They have a lot of trouble with pronunciation, because they can't move their jaw muscles, because of malnutrition caused by wisely refusing to eat English food, much of which was designed and manufactured in medieval times during the reign of King Walter the Mildly Disturbed.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Kings, Humorous

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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