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Letter "C" » condemned
«Three hundred years ago a prisoner condemned to the Tower of London carved on the wall of his cell this sentiment to keep up his spirits during his long imprisonment: 'It is not adversity that kills, but the impatience with which we bear adversity»
Author: Father James Keller
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Keywords:
carved,
cell,
condemned,
impatience,
imprisonment,
keep up,
prisoner,
sentiment,
spirits,
The Tower,
The Tower of London,
The Wall,
three hundred,
tower,
Tower of,
Tower of London,
with impatience
«We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit.»
«Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Israel, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they sold the righteous for silver, and the poor for a pair of shoes; / That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name: / And they lay themselves down upon clothes laid to pledge by every altar, and they drink the wine of the condemned in the house of their god.»
Author: Bible
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Keywords:
altar,
condemned,
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His father,
Holy Father,
Holy Name,
House of,
In the House,
maid,
meek,
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pant,
pledge,
profane,
sold,
thereof,
transgressions,
turn away
«What havoc has been made of books through every century of the Christian era? Where are fifty gospels, condemned as spurious by the bull of Pope Gelasius? Where are the forty wagon-loads of Hebrew manuscripts burned in France, by order of another p»
Author: John Adams
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President)
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Keywords:
bull,
burned,
Christian Era,
condemned,
era,
Gospels,
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Hebrew,
loads,
manuscripts,
Order of,
pope,
spurious,
wagon,
wagons
«Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he cannot give to one without robbing another. I very well know to whom I would give the first place in my friendship, but they are not in the way, I am condemned to another scene, and therefore I distribute it in pennyworths to those about me, and who displease me least, and should do the same to my fellow prisoners if I were condemned to a jail.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
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Author,
Satirist)
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Keywords:
About me,
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distribute,
jail,
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prisoners,
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The Way I Am