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“But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years.”

Years Firsts Country Government Spirit Four Changed Thousand Succeed Series Injustice Thousand Years Conquest

Author:Ezra Stiles

“We play in the jungle gym of sexuality until our spirit takes us out into a clear field where we can see the stars, the ten thousand radiances of enlightenment. One of those radiances is the dance of sexuality.”

Play Spirit Stars Clear Fields Buddhism Thousand Ten Enlightenment Sexuality Gym Jungle Radiance

Author:Frederick Lenz

“What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.”

Years Two Spirit Christianity Thousand Years Ago Thousand Years

Book:Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

Source: Crowds: A Moving-picture of Democracy

“Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.”

Source: The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII

“Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.”

Looks Spirit Speak Beauty Particular Taste Thousand Constitution Adapted

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“Vain empty words / Of honour, glory and immortal fame, / Can these recall the spirit from its place, / Or re-inspire the breathless clay with life? / What tho' your fame with all its thousand trumpets, / Sound o'er the sepulchres, will that awake / The sleeping dead.”

Spirit Sound Sleep Inspire Thousand Fame Glory Empty Vain Awake Immortal Honour Recalls Clay Trumpets Breathless Empty Words

Book:The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

Source: The Tragedy of Sir Walter Raleigh: As it is Acted at the Theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields

“Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.”

Years Problem Age Spirit Progress Middle Civilization Thousand Years Ago Difficulty Middle Ages Disturbed Hebrew

Author:Isaac Mayer Wise

“No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.”

“There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.”

Source: Jane Austen's correspondence and letters: The complete and definitive edition

“There is an utterance of Necessity, an ancient decree of the gods, eternal, sealed fast with broad oaths: whenever any one defiles his body sinfully with bloody gore or perjures himself in regard to wrong-doing, one of those spirits who are heir to long life, thrice ten thousand seasons shall he wander apart from the blessed, being born meantime in all sorts of mortal forms, changing one bitter path of life for another.”

Long Body Form Spirit Born Path Thousand Ten Eternal Seasons Regard Blessed Ancient Bitter Wander Mortals Broads Bloody Long Life Oath Gore Heirs Decree Utterance Thrice

Author:Empedocles

“At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.”

Men Past Spirit Can Do Path Thousand Fairs Weight Add Former Persistence Progressive Drag Immense Towers No Fear Have No Fear

Author:Maurice Maeterlinck

“The Vietnam war will not be over until it ends for everyone. Over four hundred thousand U.S. veterans are still recovering from wounds inflicted on their bodies and their spirit. Sixty-three million souls in Vietnam are still suffering from their 'victory.”

Stills War Soul Ends Body Spirit Suffering Three Millions Four Victory Thousand Hundred Wounds Vietnam Sixty Veteran Vietnam War Recovering

Book:When Heaven & Earth Change Places

Source: When Heaven & Earth Change Places

“The greatest progress we have made, and the greatest progress we have yet to make, is in the human heart. In the end, all the world's wealth and a thousand armies are no match for the strength and decency of the human spirit.”

World Humans Heart Made Ends Spirit Wealth Progress Thousand Army Human Heart Human Spirit Decency

Author:William J. Clinton

“The best characterization is provided by the product of this religious education, the Jew himself. His life is only of this world, and his spirit is inwardly as alien to true Christianity as his nature two thousand years previous was to the great founder of the new doctrine.”

Source: Mein Kampf

“As you release the things you no longer love or use, you call back to yourself the parts of your spirit that have been attached to them, and attached to the emotional needs and memories associated with those objects. In so doing, you bring yourself powerfully into present time. Your energy, instead of being dispersed in a thousand different, unproductive directions, becomes more centered and focused. You feel more spiritually complete and more at peace with yourself.”

Needs Feels Has Beens Different Use Spirit Energy Memories Objects Emotional Thousand Focused Release Doing You Present Time Unproductive Emotional Needs

Book:Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever

Source: Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui (Revised and Updated): Free Yourself from Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spiritual Clutter Forever

“God can so fill a man with His Spirit that he can laugh and believe in the face of a thousand difficulties.”

Men Believe Faces Spirit Laughing Thousand Difficulty

Book:Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year

Source: Smith Wigglesworth on Manifesting the Divine Nature: Abiding in Power Every Day of the Year

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