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«When in such sadness I earnestly elevated my spirit into God and locked my whole heart and mind along with all my thoughts and will therein, ceaselessly pressing in with God's Love and Mercy, and not to cease until he blessed me? then after some hard storms my spirit broke through hell's gates into the inmost birth of the Godhead, and there I was embraced with Love as a bridegroom embraces his dear bride.»
Author: Jacob Boehme
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Philosopher)
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Keywords:
blessed,
bride,
bridegroom,
bridegrooms,
broke,
ceaselessly,
earnestly,
elevated,
embraced,
embraces,
Gates,
Gates of Hell,
Godhead,
hard pressed,
inmost,
locked,
mercy,
my thoughts,
pressing,
sadness,
storms,
therein,
with love
«To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent. To lack it is to be locked within oneself, paradoxically incapable of either love or indifference.»
Author: Joan Didion
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Journalist,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
constitutes,
discriminate,
discriminated,
discriminates,
discriminating,
incapable,
indifferent,
intrinsic,
locked,
paradoxically,
potentially,
self respect
«The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.»
«There is a brilliant child locked inside every student»
«The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.»
«Vengeance, deep-brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe, And burning pride and high disdain Forbade the rising tear to flow»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
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Biographer,
Historian,
Novelist,
Poet)
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About:
Vengeance
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Keywords:
brooding,
disdain,
disdained,
disdains,
Forbade,
locked,
Pride and,
slain,
The Rising,
vengeance,
woe
«We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the upstairs window to look out of while the fire burns the house down with us trapped, locked in it»
Author: Tennessee Williams
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Keywords:
burned down,
Burns,
burn down,
call,
department,
departments,
Department of,
fire,
fire department,
house,
live in,
locked,
locking,
lock in,
lock up,
look out,
No Way Out,
on fire,
the fire,
trapped,
trapping,
upstairs,
way out,
window
«Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them.»
«They showed you a statue and told you to prayThey built you a temple and locked you awayBut they never told you the price that you payFor things that you might have done.»
«What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, and he but naked, though locked up in steel, whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
armed,
breastplate,
breastplates,
corrupted,
locked,
quarrel,
steel,
thrice,
untainted