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«A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected with the gloom of a dreary or sorrowful one; yet of neither may we be able to recover a trace»
Author: Walter de La Mare
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Dreams
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«For mortals vanished from the day's sweet light I shed no tear; rather I mourn for those who day and night live in death's fear»
Author: Greek proverb
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«From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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«For they have shed the blood of saints and prophets, and thou hast given them blood to drink; for they are worthy.»
«And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every synagogue them that believed on thee: / And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.»
«If a thief be found breaking up, and be smitten that he die, there shall no blood be shed for him.»
«A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.»
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
(President)
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