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«By entertaining of strange persons, men sometimes entertain angels unawares: but by entertaining of strange doctrines, many have entertained devils unaware»
Author: John Flavel
| Keywords:
devils, doctrines, entertain, entertained, entertaining, unaware, unawares
«The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying, / Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses: / That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.»
«And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
drunkenness, overcharge, overcharged, overcharges, overcharging, surfeit, surfeiting, unawares
«Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.»
«And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.»
«These six cities shall be a refuge, both for the children of Israel, and for the stranger, and for the sojourner among them: that every one that killeth any person unawares may flee thither.»
«There are lone figures armed only with ideas, sometimes with just one idea, who blast away whole epochs in which we are enwrapped like mummies. Some are powerful enough to resurrect the dead. Some steal on us unawares and put a spell over us which it takes centuries to throw off. Some put a curse on us, for our stupidity and inertia, and then it seems as if God himself were unable to lift it.»
«Men come and they go and they trot and they dance, and never a word about death. All well and good. Yet when death does come - to them, their wives, their children, their friends - cathcing them unawares and unprepared, then what storms of passion overwhelm them, what cries what fury, what despair!»
Author: Michel de Montaigne
(Philosopher, Writer)
| About:
Death,
Despair
| Keywords:
cries, dance of death, fury, overwhelm, storms, trot, trots, trotted, Trotting, unawares, unprepared
«Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Achievement,
Greatness,
Mankind
| Keywords:
unawares
«What, you want, do you, to come unawares, / Sweeping the church up for first morning-prayers, / And find a poor devil has ended his cares / At the foot of your rotten-runged rat-riddled stairs? / Do I carry the moon in my pocket?»
Author: Robert Browning
(Poet)
| Keywords:
ended, morning prayer, poor devil, rat, riddled, rotten, stairs, sweeping, unawares
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