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• But well-a-day, the gardener careless grew, The maids and fairies both were kept away, And in a drought the caterpillars threw Themselves upon the bud and every spray. God shield the stock! if Heaven send no supplies, The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

  William Browne

  Death, Garden, Heaven

  William Browne, of Tavistock, “The Rose”

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• A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

  Aldous Huxley

  Community, Identity, Stories

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• If you are weak, dependent upon others, inclined to allow yourself to be dominated by opinion, to take root wherever you see a little soil, make for yourself a shield that will resist everything, for if you yield to your weaker nature you will not grow, you will dry up like a dead plant, and you will bear neither fruit nor flowers.

  Alfred de Musset

  Flower, Eye, Heart

  "Narration; The confession of a child of the century".

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• I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

  E. M. Forster

  Insult, Room With A View, Protected

  E. M. Forster (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)”, p.488, Delphi Classics

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• Do not fear so, here is one who would be a blade at your back. A shield across your breast. Here is kin, here is strength to lean upon, to share as you share in need.

  Andre Norton

  Would Be, Needs, Share

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• What they forget is that, from Ancient Greece on, the people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or stronger, despite and because of their scars.

  Paulo Coelho

  People, Battle, Stronger

  Paulo Coelho (2011). “The Witch of Portobello”, p.40, HarperCollins UK

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• But when you become a slave to a public persona and don’t feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield and it shouldn’t come at the expense of your self-worth.

  Gugu Mbatha-Raw

  Self Worth, Slave, Persona

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The observance of Lent is the very badge of Christian warfare. By it we prove ourselves not to be enemies of Christ. By it we avert the scourges of divine justice. By it we gain strength against the princes of darkness, for it shields us with heavenly help. Should men grow remiss in their observance of Lent, it would be a detriment to God’s glory, a disgrace to the Catholic religion, and a danger to Christian souls. Neither can it be doubted that such negligence would become the source of misery to the world, of public calamity, and of private woe.

  Pope Benedict XIV

  Christian, Men, Catholic Religion

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• But, my dear sirs, when peace does come, you may call on me for any thing. Then will I share with you the last cracker, and watch with you to shield your homes and families against danger from every quarter.

  William Tecumseh Sherman

  Peace, Home, Doe

  William Tecumseh Sherman (1990). “Memoirs of General W.T. Sherman”, p.602, Library of America

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• Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it. Be at peace, then, put aside all anxious thoughts and imaginations, and say continually: 'The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart has trusted in Him and I am helped. He is not only with me but in me and I in Him.'

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Father, Heart, Anxious Thoughts

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• If one doubts whether Grecian valor and patriotism are not a fiction of the poets, he may go to Athens and see still upon the walls of the temple of Minerva the circular marks made by the shields taken from the enemy in the Persian war, which were suspended there. We have not far to seek for living and unquestionable evidence. The very dust takes shape and confirms some story which we had read.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wall, War, Taken

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.178, Xist Publishing

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• What is necessary for the pubic realm is to shield it from the private interests which have intruded upon it in the most brutal and aggressive form.

  Hannah

  Form, Aggressive, Interest

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• I feel a complete protection on my pilgrimage. God is my shield. There are no accidents in the Divine Plan nor does God leave us unattended. No one walks so safely as those who walk humbly and harmlessly with great love and great faith.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Great Love, Doe, Protection

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.46, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• The early mist had vanished and the fields lay like a silver shield under the sun. It was one of the days when the glitter of winter shines through a pale haze of spring.

  Edith Wharton

  Spring, Winter, Shining

  Edith Wharton (2016). “Ethan Frome”, p.82, First Avenue Editions

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• When we were only acquaintances, you let me be myself, but now you're always protecting me... I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult. Can't I be trusted to face the truth but I must get it second-hand through you? A woman's place!

  E. M. Forster

  Hands, Faces, Insult

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.154, 谷月社

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• So everything we believe about happiness is wrong," I said. He nodded. Everything?" I asked, when what I meant was, Everything? Including you? Including me? And Marcus, being Marcus, knew what I really wanted to know, and answered my silent, more significant question. He held up his hand to shield the rays and looked me in the eyes. Almost.

  Megan McCafferty

  Believe, Eye, Hands

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• There is a deep sense in which we are all ghost towns. We are all haunted by the memory of those we love, those with whom we feel we have unfinished business. While they may no longer be with us, a faint aroma of their presence remains, a presence that haunts us until we make our peace with them and let them go. The problem, however, is that we tend to spend a great deal of energy in attempting to avoid the truth. We construct an image of ourselves that seeks to shield us from a confrontation with our ghosts. Hence we often encounter them only late at night, in the corridors of our dreams.

  Peter Rollins

  Dream, Memories, Night

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• Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.

  Max Ehrmann

  Adversity, Spirit, Nurture

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.10, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears, and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given him, and he slung it at his back. Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Fall, Blow, Hands

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.826, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We create the illusions we need to go on. And one day, when they no longer dazzle or comfort, we tear them down, brick by glittering brick, until we are left with nothing but the bright light of honesty. The light is liberating. Necessary. Terrifying. We stand naked and emptied before it. And when it is too much for our eyes to take, we build a new illusion to shield us from its relentless truth.

  Libba Bray

  Honesty, Eye, Light

  Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.523, Simon and Schuster

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• No", Tori said, " I kidnapped her and forced her to escape with me. I've been using her as a human shield against those guys with guns, and I was just about to strangle her and leave her body here to throw them off my trail. But then you showed up and foiled my evil plans. Lucky for you, though. You get to rescue chloe again and win her undying grattitude.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Gun, Winning, Evil

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• I do give them to you," he announced. "Of my free will. Because this is my sword." He laid a hand on Arisa's shoulder. "And Weasle is my shield. What you hold are only pieces of iron.

  Hilari Bell

  Hands, Iron, Giving

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• Adamant," Doren said proudly, handing over the shield. "We fished it out of the tar pit where we found the shirt of mail." "Probably all belonged to the same careless adventurer," Newel speculated. "Too much money, not enough talent.

  Brandon Mull

  Pits, Mail, Too Much

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• Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety.

  Edmund Burke

  Religious, Atheism, Zealous

  Speech, 18 February 1788, in E. A. Bond (ed.) 'Speeches...in the Trial of Warren Hastings' (1859) vol. 1, p. 104

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• If Jacob was right and clothes were costumes and makeup a mask, then our attitudes and habits must be our shields.

  Justina Chen

  Attitude, Makeup, Clothes

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