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Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude.
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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Throw away the Old Testament! What part of it will you throw away? That which I do not understand? Take down then yonder blood-stained cross; for there is a love there which passeth knowledge, and a Divine hatred of sin which shook the solid earth.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) -
1 have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
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A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond.
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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.
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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
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A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.
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Absence does not make the heart grow fonder, but it sure heats up the blood.
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All good poetry is forged slowly and patiently, link by link, with sweat and blood and tears.
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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And that's when you realize that God gave you a penis and a brain, and only enough blood to run one at a time.
Live on Broadway (2002) -
And though all streams flow from a single course to cleanse the blood from polluted hand, they hasten on their course in vain.
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Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
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As falls the dew on quenchless sands, blood only serves to wash ambition's hands.
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Blood alone moves the wheels of history.
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But people like to say, Oh, it's in the blood. But art comes from nowhere. It comes from a vague, scary place. It's scary because you don't know when it's coming or if it will ever come again. It's this Other.
Q magazine, April 2000
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