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«The order of the world is always right -- such is the judgment of God. For God has departed, but he has left his judgment behind, the way the Cheshire Cat left his grin.»
«Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt offering upon the wall. And there was great indignation against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.»
«So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.»
«When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt: / And was there until the death of Herod: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying, Out of Egypt have I called my son.»
«So when this was done, others also, which had diseases in the island, came, and were healed: / Who also honoured us with many honours; and when we departed, they laded us with such things as were necessary.»
«So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.»
«So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah: for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.»
«Then straightway they departed from him which should have examined him: and the chief captain also was afraid, after he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.»
«The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those monkeys which cling by their tails -- aye, whose tails contract about the limbs, even the dead limbs, of the forest, and they hang suspended beyond the hunter's reach long after they are dead. It is of no use to argue with such men. They have not an apprehensive intellect, but merely, as it were a prehensile tail.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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