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“We are still tossed about by the disturbances of this life, which is like a stormy sea, where those who are not attached to J[esus] C[hrist] and the duties of their state, as was our dear departed, are shipwrecked.”

Stills States Faith Sea Duty Dear This Life Disturbance Stormy Departed Stormy Seas

Book:Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653

Source: Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653

“Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.”

Mind Stills Soul Moments Eye House Black Water Prayer Clear Degrees Gains Green Rounds Lips Monsters Sand Weed Atoms Mud Through The Eyes Deposits Departed Swirls

Book:Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories

Source: Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories

“And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities...?”

May Math Ghost Quantity Finite Calculus Departed Velocity

Book:The Works of George Berkeley: Miscellaneous works. Index, v.1-3

Source: The Works of George Berkeley: Miscellaneous works. Index, v.1-3

“Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living: All things fall under this name. The Sun itself is but the dark simulacrum, and the light but the shadow of God.”

Soul Light Fall Names Dark Sun Shadow All Things Departed Shadow Of Death Simulacrum

Author:Thomas Browne

“When you decide to be something, you can be it. That's what they don't tell you in the church. When I was your age, they would say we can become cops or criminals. Today, what I'm saying to you is this: when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference?”

Age Today Differences Church Gun Criminals Cop Loaded Departed Loaded Gun

Author:Frank Costello

“I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.”

Should War Justice Party Principles Deny Departed Carrying On Reasonableness

Author:Robert Walpole

“Churches that depart from the Word will soon find that God has departed from them.”

Church Departed

Author:Robert Godfrey

“Language is in decline. Not only has eloquence departed but simple, direct speech as well, though pomposity and banality have not.”

Wells Language Simple Speech Direct Clarity Decline Eloquence Departed Banality Pomposity

Book:Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?

Source: Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?

“I am indeed a fortunate man and today's hours are but a bonus, undeserved. Why have I been allowed to live this extra day when others, far better than I, have departed? Is it that they have accomplished their purpose while mine is yet to be achieved? Is this another opportunity for me to become the man I know I can be?”

Knows Men I Can Today Purpose Opportunity Hours Mines He Man Fortunate Extras Accomplished Bonus Departed Another Opportunity

Book:The Greatest Salesman in the World

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World