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One might have expected Christians to be less indifferent to the perils of casting the first stone. Here is a report from Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo, the official chronicler of the Indies under Holy Roman Emperor Charles V 'Upon arriving there, since what they found to eat was so meager, some of these Christians, seeing themselves in extreme hunger, killed an Indian they had captured, and roasted the entrails and ate them and they put a good part of the Indian to stew in a large pot in order to bring along something to eat in the ship's boat in which those who did this were travelling.'

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What would Christ do if he were in my situation

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Almost all men are intelligent. It is method that they lack.

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Every virtue is a form of obedience to God. Every evil word or act is a form of rebellion against Him. This may not be clear at first but, if we think patiently, we shall find that it is true. Why were you angry You will probably find that it w as because you were not willing to accept the world as God has made it, or because you were not willing to leave it to God to deal with the people that He has made.

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In some measure all that comes after you is going to be influenced and determined by the kind of life you make in your business of living. When viewed from such a height of vision, even the seemingly least important life gathers round it a glory which truly passes understanding.

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Isn't it strange how often small talk comes in large doses

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One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

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No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

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The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.

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These my sky-robes spun out of Iris' woof.

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Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.

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The gadding vine.

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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

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Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve.

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Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.

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So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he.

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Rather than be less, Car'd not to be at all.

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Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise.

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Of which all Europe rings from side to side.

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In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

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In mirth that after no repenting draws.

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In discourse more sweet For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost.

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Implied Subjection, but requir'd with gentle sway, And by her yielded, by him best receiv'd, Yielded with coy submission, modest pride, And sweet, reluctant, amorous delay.

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I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

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High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence.

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