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sacrifices
«Any revolutionary agitation exacts enormous sacrifices, not so much in terms of prison sentences and years of incarceration which have been raining down by the hundreds of years annually, as in terms of the manifold personal sacrifices sustained by»
Author: Peter Kropotkin
| About:
Revolution
| Keywords:
agitation, annually, exacts, hundreds, incarceration, manifold, sacrifices, sentences, sustained
«A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Men and Women
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account, forgive, harm, sacrifices
«Come to Bethel, and transgress; at Gilgal multiply transgression; and bring your sacrifices every morning, and your tithes after three years: / And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord GOD.»
Author: Bible
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bethel, Children of Israel, Gilgal, Israel, leaven, multiply, offerings, proclaim, publish, sacrifices, thanksgiving, tithes, tithing, transgress, transgressing, transgression
«But as for us, the LORD is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the LORD, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business: / And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also set they in order upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.»
«But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety; / Then there shall be a place which the LORD your God shall choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you; your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye vow unto the LORD: / And ye shall rejoice before the LORD your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your menservants, and your maidservants, and the Levite that is within your gates; forasmuch as he hath no part nor inheritance with you.»
Author: Bible
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burnt, Burnt Offerings, daughters, Gates, go over, heave, heaved, heaves, heaving, hove, inherit, inheritance, Jordan, landing place, Levite, maidservants, offering, offerings, sacrifices, thither, tithes, tithing, vow, Vows
«And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the plain, and from the mountains, and from the south, bringing burnt offerings, and sacrifices, and meat offerings, and incense, and bringing sacrifices of praise, unto the house of the LORD.»
Author: Bible
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Benjamin, burnt, Burnt Offerings, incense, Jerusalem, Judah, landing place, offerings, sacrifices, South Land, the South
«But unto the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come: / And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks: / And there ye shall eat before the LORD your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the LORD thy God hath blessed thee.»
«Also that day they offered great sacrifices, and rejoiced: for God had made them rejoice with great joy: the wives also and the children rejoiced: so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off.»
«All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets.»
Author: Eleanor Roosevelt
(Diplomat, First Lady, Humanitarian)
| Keywords:
admiration, deemed, failings, Gods Themselves, Human sacrifice, regrets, sacrifices, stresses, temptations, They Live, The Gods Themselves, The Limit, This Man, to the limit
«About sacrifice and the offering of sacrifices, sacrificial animals think quite differently from those who look on: but they have never been allowed to have their say.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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allowed, animals, differently, look on, offering, sacrifice, sacrifices, sacrificial