Top 100 Quotes About Slain

#1. Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did.

Vance Havner

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#2. Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

Oscar Wilde

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#3. With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.

Thomas Malory

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#4. It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

F Scott Fitzgerald

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#5. Stirred...the fur-toothed graves of young boys...a thousand slain in the time it would take to do love with a pretty girl or think of a new God.

Kenneth Patchen

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#6. The SAFE was slain in battle. A great flaming nautical pyre carries it off to VAULTHALLA.

Andrew Hussie

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#7. For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?

Tertullian

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#8. When Christian Grey has nightmares, he dreams of Frank.

Eddie Slain

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#9. In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!

Martin Luther

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#10. Now must we sing and sing the best we can,
But first you must be told your character:
Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain.

William Butler Yeats

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#11. The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone... Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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#12. Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Nagarjuna

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#13. He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

Tacitus

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#14. To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,
And so your follies fight against yourself.
Fear, and be slain
so worse can come to fight;
And fight and die is death destroying death,
Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.

William Shakespeare

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#15. The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain.

Homer

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#16. When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.

Bertolt Brecht

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#17. I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living.

Kim Krizan

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#18. Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer

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#19. According to FBI statistics for 2008, only 22 percent of murder victims were killed by strangers. More than 30 percent were slain by family members, boyfriends, and girlfriends. Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

Alafair Burke

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#20. Poverty hath slain a thousand, but riches have slain ten thousand. They are very uncertain, they promise that which they cannot perform, neither can they afford a contented mind.

Martin Luther

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#21. When you're in the middle of a killing field and the fucking Chooser of the Slain tells you to do something, you do it.

Kevin Hearne

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#22. Venice is the worlds unconscious: a misers glittering hoard, guarded by a Beast whose eyes are made of white agate, and by a saint who is really a prince who has just slain a dragon.

Mary McCarthy

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#23. Afflictions, persecutions, imprisonments, and death, we must expect, according to the scriptures, which tell us that the blood of those whose souls were under the altar could not be avenged on them that dwell on the earth, until their brethren should be slain as they were.

Joseph Smith Jr.

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#24. There is a road that turning always Cuts off the country of Again. Archers stand there on every side And as it runstime's deer is slain, And lies where it has lain.

Edwin Muir

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#25. You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!

Francis Schaeffer

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#26. The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama.

James A. Forbes

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#27. The peacock's plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence!

Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi

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#28. for it is better that we slay a coward, than through a coward all we to be slain.

Thomas Malory

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#29. The last remnants of Deanna the child--the idealist, the sheltered elite--had been torn loose by tonight's tragedies, slain with the same bullet that had felled her would-be killer. She had no idea who the new person inhabiting this shell of her old self would become. The realization frightened her.

Leslie Ann Moore

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#30. Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

John Newton

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#31. Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain!

Robert Burns

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#32. There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.

Charles Spurgeon

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#33. To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain".
If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain!

Manuela George-Izunwa

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#34. The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship is the Lamb once slain, now glorified.

John Stott

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#35. Look at him, he's slain another dangling participle.

Skip Coryell

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#36. The set of her chin suggested she might have slain a dragon before breakfast. The look in her eyes suggested she might, in fact, have eaten it. The

Katherine Rundell

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#37. I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.)

John Filo

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#38. Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

Manel Loureiro

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#39. He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is battle slain
Can never rise to fight again

Oliver Goldsmith

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#40. Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be.

Ellis Peters

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#41. Prosperity hath slain the foolish and wounded the wise.

John Owen

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#42. The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children.

George R R Martin

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#43. But there stands the sword of my ancestor Sir Richard Vernon, slain at Shrewsbury, and sorely slandered by a sad fellow called Will Shakspeare, whose Lancastrian partialities, and a certain knack at embodying them, has turned history upside down, or rather inside out.

Walter Scott

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#44. Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;
If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

Dorothy L. Sayers

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#45. Sweet love, sweet thorn, when lightly to my heart. I took your thrust, whereby I since am slain, And I lie disheveled in the grass apart, A sodden thing bedrenched by tears and rain.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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#46. The setting sun threatened to consume me - it could have, you know. It would have been a beautiful death with an honorable eulogy: slain by a magnificent slice of piercing orange energy. I simply turned and walked away; I would live another day.

Chila Woychik

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#47. It is not right to exult over slain men.

Homer

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#48. They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel.

Charles Spurgeon

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#49. If this were a fairy tale, that meant the dragon had been slain. Or hadn't arrived yet.

Barry Webster

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#50. Please," he begged, though he knew not for what. He'd never asked anything of anyone. Never put himself in such a vulnerable position. But he had no pride at this moment. He was utterly slain by her gentleness.

Aja James

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#51. I count no day as lived unless I have loved a woman, slain a foeman, and eaten a fine meal . . . and the days that I have lived are as numberless as the stars in the sky.

George R R Martin

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#52. She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would.

Meg Cabot

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#53. Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her killers make mock of the sacred process, selling replicas of her blind virtue to the highest bidder.

Rohinton Mistry

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#54. It is he who endured every kind of suffering in all those who foreshadowed him. In Abel he was slain, in Isaac bound, in Jacob exiled, in Joseph sold, in Moses exposed to die. He was sacrificed in the Passover lamb, persecuted in David, dishonoured in the prophets.

Anonymous

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#55. If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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#56. What armies and how much of war I have seen, what thousands of marching troops, what fields of slain, what prisons, what hospitals, what ruins, what cities in ashes, what hunger and nakedness, what orphanages, what widowhood, what wrongs and what vengeance.

Clara Barton

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#57. Let no man think to kill sin with few, easy, or gentle strokes. He who hath once smitten a serpent, if he follow not on his blow until it be slain, may repent that ever he began the quarrel. And so he who undertakes to deal with sin, and pursues it not constantly to the death.

Richard Baxter

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#58. The Ogre does what ogres can, Deeds quite impossible for Man, But one prize is beyond his reach: The Ogre cannot master speech. About a subjugated plain, Among it's desperate and slain, The Ogre stalks with hands on hips, While drivel gushes from his lips.

W. H. Auden

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#59. MACDUFF That way the noise is. Tyrant, show thy face! If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine, My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still.

William Shakespeare

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#60. I didn't have any money or ID. I didn't have a credit card. Hell, I didn't have a business card.
What would it say? 'Harry Dresden, Winter Knight, Targets Slain, No Barbecues, Waterslides, or Fireworks Displays.

Jim Butcher

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#61. How the soldiers had lain, slain and forgotten, no marker for their demise, no songs to their name, not even mourners who knew them. That is the end of battle, and once a man has tasted it, how hesitant he is to lift another spoonful to his lips.

R.W. Schmidt

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#62. Among the old Norse, it was the custom for certain warriors to dress in the skins of the beasts they had slain, and thus to give themselves an air of ferocity, calculated to strike terror into the hearts of their foes.

Sabine Baring-Gould

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#63. It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?'
Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.

Rudyard Kipling

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#64. She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh

Kim Cormack

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#65. The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one-third of his men are slain, while the town still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege.

Sun Tzu

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#66. When Marcus Crassus had constructed a ditch around the forces of Spartacus, the latter at night filled it with the boddies of prisoners and cattle that he had slain, and thus marched across it.

Sextus Julius Frontinus

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#67. There are trials in life that feel as tremendous as a quest to slay dragons. These trials are daunting. They require hard work, determination, and courage. But when the dragon is finally slain, the relief is immense.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#68. If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain!

Marie De France

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#69. Preaching styles and people being slain in the spirit and things like that. Now it doesn't happen in all black churches, and it happens sometimes in white churches, right? But on average they're quite a bit different.

Michael Emerson

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#70. Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel.

Criss Jami

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#71. Old ideas are continually being slain by new facts. There is nothing stable in the conclusions of the mind, and it is impossible that there ever should be unless we hold that the universe is made to the measure of the human mind, an assumption for which nothing in the past gives any warrant.

Edith Hamilton

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#72. I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

Seth Grahame-Smith

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#73. Conflict, not progress, is the word that defines man's path from darkness into light. No holiness is won by any other means than this, that wickedness should be slain day by day, and hour by hour.

Alexander MacLaren

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#74. Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

Charles Wesley

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#75. Despairing Dido, queen of ancient Carthage, slain by her own hand as her magnificent lover Aeneas lifts anchor and sails away forever: this is one of the most haunting and permanent images of the classical world.

Thomas Cahill

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#76. A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.

Robert Musil

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#77. Wanting to be the best in what you do but unwilling to be slain by critics on the way to your top is a recipe to remain mediocre...

Assegid Habtewold

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#78. reasons. Included was the episode in which Shanna had slain the one. He related the plan and execution of the escape, with minor details omitted, and

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

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#79. The divine truth cannot be slain. Even though it may be mocked and crucified and buried, it will rise victoriously on the third day and reign in triumph through all eternity." - Reformation martyr.

Ethelbert Stauffer

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#80. Christianity as a specific doctrine was slain with Jesus, suddenly and utterly. He was hardly cold in his grave, or high in his heaven (as you please), before the apostles dragged the tradition of him down to the level of the thing it has remained ever since.

George Bernard Shaw

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#81. Now for my own case, I bless the Lord that, for all that hath been said of me, my conscience doth not condemn me. I do not say I am free of sin, but I am at peace with God through a slain Mediator; and I believe that there is no salvation but only in Christ.

Donald Cargill

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#82. Florentino Ariza was on the bed, lying on his back and trying to regain control, once again not knowing what to do with the skin of the tiger he had slain.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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#83. Bridget's voice floated out from the kitchen. Cold blows the wind tonight, sweetheart, Cold are the drops of rain; The very first love that ever I had In greenwood he was slain. I'll do as much for my sweetheart As any young woman may; I'll sit and mourn at his graveside A twelve-month and a day.

Cassandra Clare

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#84. We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

John Calvin

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#85. She exhaled curtly. 'I'm a serryn. That's all you see. I'm just something to be tortured, slain or sold off as a commodity. That's hardly the most appealing of traits.'
'Tell your eyes that. Because you really shouldn't look at me the way you do. No serryn has looked at me like that.

Lindsay J. Pryor

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#86. Lexy lay curled up in Greys arms on the couch and slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again.
The Children of Ankh series

Kim Cormack

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#87. Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.

Thomas Paine

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#88. Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Robinson Jeffers

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#89. Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its ten thousands.

Sean O'Casey

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#90. Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity
Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times
I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.

William Shakespeare

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#91. Is it a lack of faith to be thinking that we're all going to be slain or captured and sunk into the Hot Lake?" asked one of the four chosen archers.
"Yes," snapped the Carp.

Garth Nix

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#92. No! no! My engagement is with no bride
the worms! the worms expect me! I am a dead man
I have been slain by robbers
my body lies at Wurtzburg
at midnight I am to be buried
the grave is waiting for me
I must keep my appointment!

Washington Irving

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#93. But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign, Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.

John Denham

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#94. In your books I have flung myself into the bottomless pit, performed miracles, slain, burned towns, preached new religions, conquered whole kingdoms

Anton Chekhov

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#95. In the Old Way, women might decorate themselves with ornaments bought with coin, but a warrior wore only the jewelry he took off the corpses of enemies slain by his own hand. Paying the iron price, it was called.

George R R Martin

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#96. I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again

John Dryden

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#97. A crowdfunding investment involves a risk. You should not invest any funds in this offering unless you can afford to lose your entire investment." All that is required by Section

Douglas Slain

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#98. Love is this sudden crash in your path, quick and to the point, and nearly always it leaves someone slain on the green.

Daniel Handler

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#99. What is thy body but a swallowing grave,
Seeming to bury that posterity
Which, by the rights of time, thou needs must have
If thou destroy them not in dark obscurity?
If so, the world will hold thee in disdain,
Sith in thy pride so fair a hope is slain.

William Shakespeare

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#100. They had found two of his uncle's men in the wood, slain, but the corpses had risen in the chill of night. Jon's burnt fingers twitched as he remembered. He still saw the wight in his dreams, dead Othor with the burning blue eyes and the cold black hands,

George R R Martin

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