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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.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) -
To those of my race who... underestimate the importance of cultivating friendly relations with the Southern white man, who is their next-door neighbor, I would say, 'Cast down your bucket where you are'—cast it down in making friends in every manly way of the people of all races by whom we are surrounded.
Source: Address at Atlanta International Exposition, Atlanta, Ga., 18 September 1895 -
We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Wherever our life touches yours, we help or hinder... wherever your life touches ours, you make us stronger or weaker.... There is no escape - man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
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''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.
Source: Alice in wonderland -
'The Talk-Funny Girl' opens with a glum picture of a desperately poor rural New England family. Poverty has so brutalized the family that the ordinary laws and rules governing humanity have eroded, turning systems of behavior upside down.
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'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.
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A comic, you have to be looking down at him. My favorite rooms, the audience is above the stage, stadium-style.
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A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish.
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A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
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A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.
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A feather will weigh down a scale when there is nothing in the opposite one.
Source: Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, V -
A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.
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A guy that I was supposed to face - and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in the ring with me because he was one of those guys that was on top and saw a huge threat in Brock Lesnar at the time - that's 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
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A hot bath! I cry, as I sit down in it! Again as I lie flat, a hot bath! How exquisite a pleasure, how luxurious, fervid and flagrant a consolation for the rigors, the austerities, the renunciation of the day.
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