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“But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.”

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Limited information is available about Donald Cargill, who was an individual of an unknown profession during the 17th century. He was born in 1619 and passed away on July 27, 1681. more

“...a condemned man who, at the hour of death, says or thinks that if the alternative were offered him of existing somewhere, on a height of rock or some narrow elevation, where only his two feet could stand, and round about him the ocean, perpetual gloom, perpetual solitude, perpetual storm, to remain there standing on a yard of surface for a lifetime, a thousand years, eternity! - rather would he live thus than die at once? Only live, live, live! - no matter how, only live!”

“I wept when the muse Ulla bent over me. Blinded by tears I could not prevent her from kissing me, I could not prevent the Muse from giving me that terrible kiss. All of you who have ever been kissed by the Muse will surely understand that Oskar, once branded by that kiss, was condemned to take back the drum he had rejected years before, the drum he had buried in the sand of Sapse Cemetery.”

Giving Years Tears Terrible Kissing Sand Buried Rejected Muse Bent Cemetery Blinded Branded

Author:Gunter Grass

“Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.”

Source: The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems

“But to ask pity of our body is like discoursing in front of an octopus, for which our words can have no more meaning than the sound of the tides, and with which we should be appalled to find ourselves condemned to live.”

Should Body Asks Sound Fronts Pity Tides Our Words Octopus

Author:Marcel Proust

“There are freaky talking mannequins in the Salem Witch Museum that recite the Lord's Prayer and while they do resemble shrunken apples they nevertheless help the visitor understand how hard it must have been for the condemned to say the line about forgiving those who trespass against us.”

Has Beens Hard Helping Lines Prayer Talking Lord Forgiving Apples Museums Witch Nevertheless Visitors Freaky Salem

Book:The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Source: The Partly Cloudy Patriot

“Before we condemn the jurors who acquitted George Zimmerman, we should remember that they were asked to do something extraordinary. They were asked to listen to the facts and apply the law to the best of their ability in a case the world was watching.”

World Should Facts Remember Law Ability Cases Extraordinary Jurors Zimmerman

Author:Alafair Burke

“I make soup and I back bread and I know my supreme need is joy in God and I know I can't experience deep joy in God until I deep trust in God. I shine sinks and polish through to the realization that trusting God is my most urgent need. If I deep trusted God in all the facets of my life, wouldn't that deep heal my anxiety, my self-condemnation, my soul holes? The fear is suffocating, terrorizing, and I want the remedy, and it is trust. Trust is everything. If fear keeps our lives small, does a life that receives all of God in this moment grow large too?”

“The pair smiled desperately at one another. And for the first time ever, despite the fact that everyone he knew - even the gods themselves - would condemn him for it, Jebel didn't think of Tel Hesani as a slave, but as an equal.”

Thinking Firsts Facts Equal First Time Slave Despite Pairs

Author:Darren Shan

“The current fashion in belligerent atheism usually involves flinging condemnation around with a kind of gallant extravagance, more or less in the direction of all faiths at once, with little interest in precise aim.”

Kind Littles Interest Atheism Fashion Aim Currents Precise Condemnation Extravagance Gallant

Author:David Bentley Hart

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