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“The universal nature out of the universal substance, as if it were wax, now molds a horse, and when it has broken this up, it uses the material for a tree, then for a man, then for something else.”

Ifs Men Use Tree Materials Broken Universal Horse Substance Mold

Book:The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius

Source: The Thoughts of the Emperor M. Aurelius Antonius

“A particular rule that seems to make sense in the individual case makes no sense when it is made a universal rule and applied to all cases. It makes no sense because it fails to take into account the connection between one broken window left untended and a thousand broken windows.”

Made Seems Individual Left Cases Failing Particular Broken Thousand Window Connections Universal Accounts Make Sense Broken Windows

Book:Thinking about Crime

Source: Thinking about Crime

“When the balance is broken then everything includes itself in power, power into will, will into appetite. So appetite, aided by will and power, becomes a universal wolf, at last eating up itself.”

Lasts Broken Balance Eating Universal Appetite

Author:William C. Brown

“Everything comes out in blues music: joy, pain, struggle. Blues is affirmation with absolute elegance. It's about a man and a woman. So the pain and the struggle in the blues is that universal pain that comes from having your heart broken. Most blues songs are not about social statements.”

Men Heart Pain Joy Song Social Struggle Broken Universal Absolutes Statements Affirmation Elegance Blues Music

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“I turn to right and left, in all the earth I see no signs of justice, sense or worth: A man does evil deeds, and all his days Are filled with luck and universal praise; Another's good in all he does - he dies A wretched, broken man whom all despise.”

Men Doe Earth Dies Turns Evil Left Justice Broken Universal Praise Luck Filled Deeds Despise Wretched Broken Man

Book:Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

Source: Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings

“The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious.”

Body Earth Night Language Broken Universal Sight Noise Landscape Glorious Ugliness All Night Unnatural Foul Hideous Distortion Foul Language

Book:The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen

Source: The Collected poems of Wilfred Owen

“A truly Christian love, either to God or men, is a humble broken-hearted love. The desires of the saints, however earnest, are humble desires. Their hope is a humble hope; and their joy, even when it is unspeakable and full of glory, is a humble broken-hearted joy, and leaves the Christian more poor in spirit, and more like a little child, and more disposed to a universal lowliness of behaviour.”

Source: A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections: In Three Parts ...