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• We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, Men, White Man

  John Filson, Daniel Boone (1793). “The discovery, settlement and present state of Kentucky, and an introduction to the topography and natural history of that ... country. Also colonel Daniel Boon's narrative of the wars of Kentucky”, p.36

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• Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.

  Daniel Boone

  Country, War, Kentucky

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.1, Applewood Books

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• The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several million human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

  Carl Jung

  War, Men, Epidemics

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• Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul.

  Carl Jung

  Men, Earthquakes, Soul

  Carl Gustav Jung (1968). “The collected works”

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• I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

  Ignatius of Antioch

  Catholic, Teeth, May

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• O world, world when I was younger I thought there was some order governing you and your deeds. But now you seem to be a labyrinth of errors, a frightful desert, a den of wild beasts, a game in which men move in circles…a stony field, a meadow full of serpents, a flowering but barren orchard, a spring of cares, a river of tears, a sea of suffering, a vain hope.

  Fernando de Rojas

  Spring, Moving, Men

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• No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other

  Ammianus Marcellinus

  Christian, Beast, Dealings

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• As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs.

  Plutarch

  Lying, Desert, World

  Parallel Lives "Aemilius Paulus" sec. 5

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• Superstition changes a man to a beast, fanaticism makes him a wild beast, and despotism a beast of burden.

  Jean-Francois de La Harpe

  Men, Superstitions, Beast

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• In search of my Love
  I will go over mountains and strands;
  I will gather no flowers,
  I will fear no wild beasts;
  And pass by the mighty and the frontiers.

  John of the Cross

  Life, Flower, Mountain

  St. John of the Cross (2013). “A Spiritual Canticle of the Soul and the Bridegroom Christ”, p.37, Simon and Schuster

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• The images we create could turn into wild beasts and tear us to pieces.

  Rumi

  Tears, Pieces, Beast

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• They went down to Egypt and provided food when famine reigned; they came to the obstinate sea, and taught it wisdom with a rod; they went out into the hostile desert and adorned it with a pillar; they entered the furnace, fiercely heated, and sprinkled it with their dew; into the pit where they had been thrown an angel entered and taught its wild beasts to fast.

  Ephrem the Syrian

  Christian, Angel, Egypt

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• There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Men, People, Kind

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• Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.

  Jonathan Swift

  Character, Men, Talking

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• So it is useless to evade reality, because it only makes it more virulent in the end. But instead, look steadfastly into the slit, pin-pointed, malignant eyes of reality: as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. Take it by the scruff of the neck, and shake the evil intent out of it; till it rattles out harmlessly, like gall bladder stones, fossilized on the floor.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Eye, Reality, Hands

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• Into this wild-beast tangle these men had been born without their consent, they had taken part in it because they could not help it; that they were in jail was no disgrace to them, for the game had never been fair, the dice were loaded. They were swindlers and thieves of pennies and dimes, and they had been trapped and put out of the way by the swindlers and thieves of millions of dollars.

  Upton Sinclair

  Taken, Men, Games

  Upton Sinclair (2016). “The Jungle”, p.163, Xist Publishing

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• If people lacked the capacity to receive the thoughts of the men who preceded them and to pass on to others their own thoughts, men would be like wild beasts. And if men lacked this other capacity of being infected by art, people would be almost more savage still, and, above all, more separated from and more hostile to one another. Therefore the activity of art is a most important one, as important as the activity of speech itself and as generally diffused.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Art, Men, People

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• I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.

  Osamu Dazai

  Loneliness, Hard Work, Men

  Osamu Dazai (1968). “The Setting Sun”, p.150, New Directions Publishing

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• Of all wild beasts on earth or in sea, the greatest is a woman.

  Menander

  Women, Sea, Earth

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• What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, Men, Tyrants

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  People, Bird, Generations

  Theodore Roosevelt (2014). “Forgotten Tales and Vanished Trails”, p.239, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Music might tame and civilize wild beasts, but 'tis evident it never yet could tame and civilize musicians.

  John Gay

  Musician, Might, Beast

  1729 Polly

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• There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

  Menander

  Women, Sea, Land

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• I will be gone from here and sing my songs/ In the forest wilderness where the wild beasts are,/ And carve in letters on the little trees/ The story of my love, and as the trees/ Will grow letters too will grow, to cry/ In a louder voice the story of my love.

  Virgil

  Song, Voice, Tree

  Virgil (2015). “The Eclogues of Virgil”, p.53, Macmillan

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• On some occasions the bodies of the martyrs who had been devoured by wild beasts, upon the beasts being strangled, were found alive in their stomachs.

  Eusebius

  Religious, Scary, Alive

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