Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not "down". It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came [...] So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL We had requested what we thought was fair value, but they came back much lower, so we countered with... DARIN WRIGHT For then would they not have ceased to be offered? because that the worshippers once purged should h... BIBLE …he wanted to sleep inside her lungs and breathe her blood and be smothered. He wanted her to be a... TIM O'BRIEN The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS It should be up to the athlete to decide if they feel they can race or not. And if so, then they wou... JOCHEN BEHLE I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON Then one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Bethel, and taught... BIBLE First they came for the Communists but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came ... MARTIN NIEMOELLER First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came... DIETRICH BONHOEFFER Now then, in the earth these people cannot stand much church -- an hour and a quarter is the limit, ... MARK TWAIN But this too is true: stories can save us. TIM O'BRIEN We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another... 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SUNIL YAPA That is because they believe, then disbelieve, so a seal is set upon their hearts so that they do no... QURAN I sometimes heard the parents of Michel's playmates sigh about how, after a busy day, they really ne... HERMAN KOCH Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farming house far down the road - a long, agonized wailing,a... BRAM STOKER Then if they will endure, still the fire is their abode, and if they ask for goodwill, then are they... QURAN Once upon a time all the animals in the zoo decided that they would disarm, and they arranged to hav... SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL In Germany they came first for the Communist, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Th... MARTIN NIEM In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. T... MARTIN NIEMOELLER I used to be in control of a yard on Milton Street, where fellas could come there and sleep. If they... DREXEL DEAL They were living to themselves: self, with its hopes, and promises, and dreams, still had hold of th... ELIZABETH PAYSON PRENTISS They are not real free throws in Elks, because no one is tired. I have always thought that they shou... JACKY GADDIS I think a generation ago, dads went to work, they came home, and they had their dinner, had a drink,... ZACH CREGGER We came out with great intensity at the beginning, knocking down shots and stuff like that. Then in ... ANTHONY GURLEY Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that th... LEMONY SNICKET They are not tennis players. They came from soccer. Those (are) No. 3, 4 and 5 spots, so I really do... JOE DICKSON First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist. MARTIN NIEMOLLER If they did not know the record of the Bull's Eye retailer, then they certainly were negligent becau... PAUL LUVERA So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinkin... KURT VONNEGUT Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the nex... LAO-TZU Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the nex... LAO TZU It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the day... J.M. BARRIE When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to ... ARISTOTLE She knew how breakups went from hearing other girls complain about them. First the pulling away, the... CASSANDRA CLARE They suggested I should introduce an element of reincarnation in the story. At first, I thought that... ROLAND JOFFE In Germany, they first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. ... MARTIN NIEMöLLER And the king could find no sleep. Not then, not now, and still he waits to this day in a shell of sp... C.M. HAYDEN Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that ... MARILYN MANSON They had to stir the churn of the ocean, until the soma floated up, as butter floats from milk. And ... ROBERTO CALASSO People die from checkmate..., they run and run they are always the figure king, they run and run one... DEYTH BANGER So long as there are earnest believers in the world, they will always wish to punish opinions, even ... WALTER BAGEHOT There was like a two-week period where all of a sudden they had five teeth. Now they have nine, seve... APRIL SIX Men have looked away from themselves and at things so long that they have come to esteem the religio... RALPH WALDO EMERSON I was on 'Melrose' at a time where we had to all go home and be there at the same time when ... LAURA LEIGHTON Somehow, later, exhausted and dismayed by these sapping, abrasive, attriting episodes, they came to ... IAIN M. BANKS The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS It's real disappointing. We had just hit a 3-pointer ourselves to tie the game, and then they came d... JAMES HUNTER And Allah has made some of you excel others in the means of subsistence, so those who are made to ex... QURAN These things understood not his disciples at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, then remembere... BIBLE Commemoration of Maximilian Kolbe, Franciscan Friar, Priest, Martyr, 1941 Whether God revealed ... JOHN CALVIN My dad had this philosophy that if you tell children they're beautiful and wonderful then they b... EMILY MORTIMER It was certainly a surprise to us that this would happen, that he would come in and do this. But it ... DWAYNE BAIRD A silence fell at the mention of Gavard. They all looked at each other cautiously. As they were all ... ÉMILE ZOLA The way I see it is they came to his house, uninvited, ... They had not only the force of the embass... MAXINE WATERS They had chains which they fastened about the leg of the nearest hog, and the other end of the chain... UPTON SINCLAIR An ax came through the door. Then two firefighters. They looked down at and assistant mall manager c... TIM DORSEY I once came out of the hotel, and Brad Pitt was in front of me. There were all these fans out there ... CASEY AFFLECK Often the business side has a good idea of what they want to do, but they might not understand the l... BRAD SHIMMIN Then they told us that Freddie Jackson was coming. Then they told us Keith Washington was on his way... CATHERINE BUSH They matched everything we did. We made a run. They came out and stopped it. If we missed a wide-ope... ALLAN RAY They had a little lull in the third period, but then they started knocking down shots again. They pl... HOWARD HEWITT She didn’t know how long they stood on that roof, tangled up in each other, mouths and hands rovin... SARAH J. MAAS Should an alderman elect to resign, they can do that at any time. The resignation would be received ... DAVE LIGHT
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