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war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few. Charles Caleb Colton
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? Charles Dickens
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
thee ifs
If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
thee mortals universe
Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe. Benjamin Franklin
thee capacity all-things
Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee. Aleister Crowley
thee lost mary
No, he can never be lost who recommends himself to thee, O Mary. Alphonsus Liguori
thee abyss wells
Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine. Angelus Silesius
thee whom wrongs
I give thee sixpence! I will see thee damned first - / Wretch! whom no sense of wrongs can rouse to vengeance; / Sordid, unfeeling, reprobate, degraded, / Spiritless outcast! George Canning
thee
Get thee to a nunnery. William Shakespeare
thee wells wounds
So well thy words become thee as thy wounds;
thee kill-me dies
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me. John Donne