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«My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that I couldn't like you if you were the best of women, - or stop loving you, no matter what you do.»
«I come to present the strong claims of suffering humanity. I come to place before the Legislature of Massachusetts the condition of the miserable, the desolate, the outcast. I come as the advocate of helpless, forgotten, insane men and women; of beings sunk to a condition from which the unconcerned world would start with real horror.»
Author: Dorothea Dix
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Philanthropist)
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Keywords:
advocate,
claims,
desolate,
desolated,
desolating,
helpless,
horror,
legislature,
Legislatures,
outcast,
sunk,
The Advocate,
unconcerned
«It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.»
«But if thou refuse to go forth, this is the word that the LORD hath shewed me: / And, behold, all the women that are left in the king of Judah's house shall be brought forth to the king of Babylon's princes, and those women shall say, Thy friends have set thee on, and have prevailed against thee: thy feet are sunk in the mire, and they are turned away back.»
«And David put his hand in his bag, and took thence a stone, and slang it, and smote the Philistine in his forehead, that the stone sunk into his forehead; and he fell upon his face to the earth.»
«Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons»
«And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.»
«Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation»
«I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave, and success and miscarriage are empty sounds: I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Critic,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
censure,
frigid,
miscarriage,
miscarriages,
protract,
protracted,
protracting,
protracts,
sunk
«Some lives are highly artificial. People are sunk in fear and anxiety; mentally on one side and physically on the other, they have no rest. Drugs, tablets, capsules and pills are produced in millions but the general health has not improved. Besides, new varieties of illness have emerged and are developing fast.»