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«Let them bestow on every airth a limb; Then open all my veins, that I may swim To thee, my Maker! in that crimson lake; Then place my parboiled head upon a stake - Scatter my ashes - strew them in the air; - Lord! since thou know'st where all these»
«History is strewn with the wrecks of nations which have gained a little progressiveness at the cost of a great deal of hard manliness, and have thus prepared themselves for destruction as soon as the movements of the world gave a chance for it.»
«The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round»
«Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.»
«The path of a good woman is indeed strewn with flowers; but they rise behind her steps, not before them»
Author: John Ruskin (Critic, Writer) | About: Virtue | Keywords: steps, strew, strewed, strewn, strews, The Path
«Strew on her roses, roses, / And never a spray of yew. / In quiet she reposes: / Ah! would that I did too!»
Author: Matthew Arnold (Critic, Poet) | Keywords: reposes, spray, strew, yew
«Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them»
«And when you stick on conversation's burrs, don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs»
«Literature is strewn with the wreckage of those who have minded beyond reason the opinion of others»
«Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.»

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