Elizabeth Gaskell Quotes
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
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There are no pure styles of karate. Purity comes only when pure knuckles meet pure flesh, no matter who delivers or receives.
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Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!
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It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.
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William Blake cursed the flesh for a clod, Yet of some of his sayings we Moderns have heard tell: 'The nakedness of woman is the work of God', Or that title--The Marriage of Heaven and Hell.
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Daytime sleep is like the sin of the flesh; the more you have the more you want, and yet you feel unhappy, sated and unsated at the same time.
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Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.
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I see that any materialism in life coarsens the soul, and that the hunger of the body and the appetites of the flesh desecrate always, and often destroy.
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When they eventually ran out of food, some but not all resorted to eating the flesh of those who'd died. This story has mythic power in large part as a testimony to what people are capable of when pushed to the extremes of human experience. Some become savages. Some become heroes.
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There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; he does not feel for man.
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I can love freedom and the flesh and blood of my people moreso than I do the money.
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There cannot be a surer proof of low origin, or of an innate meanness of disposition, than to be always talking and thinking of being genteel.
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God himself took this human flesh upon him.
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Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?
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Our state cannot be severed, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
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But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.
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In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
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Just as a man cannot live in the flesh unless he is born in the flesh, even so a man cannot have the spiritual life of grace unless he is born again spiritually. This regeneration is effected by Baptism: "Unless a man is born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God" (Jn 3:5)
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In a way, I was almost happy to see her. The worst part of me, out in the flesh. Blinking back at me in the dim light, daring me to call her a name other than my own.
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I cannot but think that it would be a great step if mankind could familiarise themselves with the idea that they are spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh re spirits incorporated for a time in the flesh.
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Whenever citizens are seen routinely as enemies of their own government, writers are rountinely seen to be the most dangerous enemies.
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Who tracks the steps of glory to the grave?
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We enact many laws that manufacture criminals, and then a few that punish them.
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Only play into a variation in which your opponent is strong if you have your own personal novelty ready!
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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
