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Tag Name "Devours" (45)

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Finance, like time, devours its own children.
Honore de Balzac
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Law is a Bottomless-Pit, it is a Cormorant, a Harpy, that devours every thing.
John Arbuthnot
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Life, this anti-entropy, ceaselessly reloaded with energy, is a climbing force, toward order amidst chaos, toward light, among the darkness of the indefinite, toward the mystic dream of Love, between the fire which devours itself and the silence of the Cold.
Albert Claude
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Le mariage doit incessamment combattre un monstre qui de v ore tout: l'habitude. Marriage should always combat the monster that devours everything: habit.
Honore de Balzac
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My family always comes first. My world revolves around my husband, Peter, our daughter, Victoria, and our son, William, but not necessarily in that order. Then, it's this fascinating world of publishing that devours most of my days and many nights.
Dorothea Benton Frank
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Time is the tiger that devours me, but I am that tiger.
Jorge Luis Borges
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
T. S. Eliot
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Eric Lewis doesn't play the piano, he devours it. He doesn't play music, he channels the divine.
Mariska Hargitay
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I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Decide to forgive: For resentment is negative resentment is poisoning resentment diminishes and devours the self.
Robert Muller
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A society that devours its own young deserves no automatic or unquestioning allegiance.
Pat Barker
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Friendship lives on its income, love devours its capital.
Arsene Houssaye
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Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books.
William Matthews
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In Nature nothing is mean or contemptible, and it is only pride, originating in a false idea of our superiority, which causes our contempt for some of her productions. In the eyes of Nature, however, the oyster that vegetates at the bottom of the sea is as dear and perfect as the proud biped who devours it.
Baron d'Holbach
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love is that burning fire which devours everything and shall never, never cease in all the endless ages to come.
Hadewijch
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A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church.
Charles Spurgeon
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Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.
Georges Bernanos
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For age but tastes of pleasures youth devours.
John Dryden
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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind, and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread: Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
John Milton
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The narcissist devours people, consumes their output, and casts the empty, writhing shells aside.
Sam Vaknin
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The truth is harsh. Anubis said. Spirits come to the Hall of Judgement all the time, and they cannot let go of their lies. They deny their faults, their true feelings, their mistakes.......right up until Ammit devours their souls for eternity. It takes strength and courage to admit the truth.
Rick Riordan
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