A space is created between them there,
Like a level pass between two hills
That the snowdrift's
whiteness
softly fills,
When the gusts of wind have dropped in winter.
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Ronsard |
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on the " Ordnance
Townland
Survey
for the County of Leitrim," Sheet 2.
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Lucrece came
On her right hand;
Penelope
was by,
Those broke his bow, and made his arrows lie
Split on the ground, and pull'd his plumes away
From off his wings: after, Virginia,
Near her vex'd father, arm'd with wrath and hate.
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Petrarch |
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n taponadas, cualquier consejo se
conviene
inmedia- tamente en un juicio condenatorio.
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Adorno-Theodor-Minima-Moralia |
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GOOD "Hedgethorn," for we'll
anglicize
your name
Until the last slut's hanged and the last pig disemboweled,
Seeing your wife is charming and your child Sings in the open meadow at least the kodak
says so
My good fellow, you, on a cabaret silence And the dancers, you write a sonnet,
Say "Forget To-morrow," being of all men The most prudent, orderly, and decorous !
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Ezra-Pound-Lustra |
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(4) If it is possible to make an assault with fire from without, do not wait for it to break out within, but deliver your attack at a
favourable
moment.
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The-Art-of-War |
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This does not mean simply that our
interpretations
betray us, as if they were slips of the tongue or Rorschach tests.
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Bourbon - "Twitterlitter" of Nonsense- "Askesis" at "Finnegans Wake" |
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"
"True, thou hast
compassed
death; but hast not thou
The tree of life's own bough?
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Christina Rossetti |
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" In any case, Marcus uses this descrip tion of the death of a good man as an a
fortiori
argument: if such a man must expect such an end, then all the more must Marcus himself expect similar reactions at the moment ofhis own death:
This is what people will say about a good man.
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Hadot - The Inner Citadel The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
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[Sidenote: Why do they who are exposed to the assaults of beasts
of prey and
venomous
reptiles seek to slay each other with the
sword.
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Chaucer - Boethius |
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) has been your
peculiar
Talent.
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Western Martyrology or Blood Assizes |
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Shall I be
faithless
to myself
Or to you?
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Sara Teasdale - Love Songs |
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Lucrece came
On her right hand;
Penelope
was by,
Those broke his bow, and made his arrows lie
Split on the ground, and pull'd his plumes away
From off his wings: after, Virginia,
Near her vex'd father, arm'd with wrath and hate.
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| Question: |
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Petrarch |
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, LONDON, &" 15
FREDERICK
ST.
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Nietzsche - v13 - Genealogy of Morals |
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And
dreadful
the blast of the trumpet.
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Stefan George - The Anti-Christ |
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Therefore it does not desire of
necessity
all things whatsoever
it desires.
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| Question: |
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Summa Theologica |
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This we knew in
theory, but could not
persuade
ourselves
we practised, till a friend, whom we had
not seen for many years, paid us a visit.
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Childrens - Roses and Emily |
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In all the
expressive
forms of the modern financial context, Benjamin wanted to read the codes of alienation, as if not only the dear Lord was hiding in the details, as believed by Spinozists7 and Warburgians, but also the adversary.
| Guess: |
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Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
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And whilst it has
achieved
its
aim in the most recent penal codes, with a great, and too
frequently an excessive diminution of punishments, so in respect
of theory, in Italy, Germany, and France it has crowned its work
with a series of masterpieces amongst which I will only mention
Carrara's ``Programme of Criminal Law.
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Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri |
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--Tlie incident which first
discovered
St.
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| Source: |
Life and Works of St Aneguissiums Hagographicus |
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,
on the " Ordnance
Townland
Survey
for the County of Leitrim," Sheet 2.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3 |
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Use thyself
therefore
often to meditate upon this, that
the nature of the universe delights in nothing more, than in altering
those things that are, and in making others like unto them.
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations |
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A space is created between them there,
Like a level pass between two hills
That the snowdrift's
whiteness
softly fills,
When the gusts of wind have dropped in winter.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ronsard |
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Notes:
1 - The term bindweed is my
translation
of Arabic ruḵāmā.
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| Source: |
Abid bin Al-Abras - The Cycle of Death - A Mu'allaqa |
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A public domain book is one that was never subject to
copyright
or whose legal copyright term has expired.
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Fichte - Germany_and_the_French_Revolution |
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Of every lady I
despair!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Troubador Verse |
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but for the fact that both verbs have
a common object in dwav-ra, the sense of which is
obscured
by
new".
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Source: |
Demosthenese - First Philippic and the Olynthiacs |
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Both are but
theatres
where the chief actors rot.
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| Question: |
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Byron - Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
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The corpse of Rome lies here
entombed
in dust,
Her spirit gone to join, as all things must
The massy round's great spirit onward whirled.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Du Bellay - The Ruins of Rome |
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322-337) a commentary
extracted
from the Ddraniharapariprcchd.
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| Question: |
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AbhidharmakosabhasyamVol-4VasubandhuPoussinPruden1991 |
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The genetic natural
selection
identified by neo-Darwinism as the driving force of evolution on this planet was only
126
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Richard-Dawkins-The-Devil-s-Chaplain |
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In
Izvestja
of the Mus.
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Cambridge Medieval History - v2 - Rise of the Saracens and Foundation of the Western Empire |
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3% of actyls have been
added in the revision, and I thus reach the conclusion that
the
percentage
of the first Amores did not exceed 48.
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Ovid - 1869 - Juvenile Works and Spondaic Period |
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**
FURTHER
RESTRICTIONS
ON OPINION.
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Hunt - Fourth Estate - History of Newspapers and Liberty of Press - v1 |
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Incarnation, then, is no longer switching from the spirit to the flesh (and back)*it is obliging
ourselves
to face what our spirit cannot control.
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Gumbrecht - Incarnation, Now - Five Brief Thoughts and a Non-Conclusive Finding |
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" it exclaimed to Dante; "O
superabounding
Divine
Grace!
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Stories from the Italian Poets |
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Your work is important to me, and even though I am not
able to
understand
it very well, I would be grateful if you would
send me a copy of your book.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Weininger - 1946 - Mind and Death of a Genius |
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Nothing in recent years has alienated me as much as the confused rebellion of young people in France in March 2006 against the proposed law for a more flexible first job contract that was designed to reduce employers’
reluctance
to hire new employ- ees.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Selected Exaggerations |
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Therefore Peter
preventeth
them, when he saith that he is in heaven.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Calvin Commentary - Acts - b |
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But even in other less illustrious circles similar relations occur; we may mention another contemporary of Scipio, the philosopher Clitomachus, because his life at the same time presents a vivid view of the great intermingling of
1 The statement that no “ Greek games" were
exhibited
in Rome before 146.
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
The history of Rome; tr. with the sanction of the ... v.4. Mommsen, Theodor, 1817-1903 |
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ek is Senior
Researcher
at the Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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| Source: |
Hegel - Zizek - With Hegel Beyond He |
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Clouds hid the
moon,
everything
was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat as
its keel cut through the waves; the murmur lulled me, and in a short
time I slept soundly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mary Shelley - Frankenstein |
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“Meditation,' says Walker, 'was her master-
piece’: and her 'short returns to God,' as she calls her hours of
pious thought, were to her the
luminous
points in her life.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v08 |
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Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the
judgment
day;
Love and tears for the Blue;
Tears and love for the Gray.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Matthews - Poems of American Patriotism |
|
It seems to be as gothic as the
forgotten
Catholic eschatology.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Rage and Time |
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If the ordinary vocabulary of a people defines truth as the negative of hiddenness and forgetting, we are dealing with a language that
effortlessly
thinks the most profound thoughts.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk- Infinite Mobilization |
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Too much trouble,
that’d
be.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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If then a man shall speak, he shall be swallowed up: because if a man wishes to speak of
eternity
as it is, he takes away also from himself even the sense he has of it when silent.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
St Gregory - Moralia - Job |
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He lived in several other places in quality of a footman, and as he was of that proud
and haughty spirit that could not
patiently
submit to the orders of his superiors, nor behave himself with common decency to his equals and fellow-servants, his continuance in all of them was of short duration.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Caulfield - Portraits, Memoirs, of Characters and Memorable Persons - v4 |
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Building
societies are probably the cleverest racket of modem times.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell - Coming Up for Air |
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However,
excessive
desire for this is the work of Mara.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jamgon-Kongtrul-Cloudless-Sky |
|
10
Passion and love and longing and hot tears
Consume this mortal Sappho, and too soon
A great wind from the dark will blow upon me,
And I be no more found in the fair world,
For all the search of the
revolving
moon 15
And patient shine of everlasting stars.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sappho |
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Mighty mother, virgin pure,
In the
darkness
and the night
For us she bore the heavenly Lord!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Coleridge - Biographia Literaria |
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[200] And he lamenting shall pace the Scythian land for some five years
yearning
for his bride.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Lycophron - Alexandra |
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The third
particularity
is possession of buddha qualities.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Khenchen-Thrangu-Rinpoche-Asanga-Uttara-Tantra |
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This plan
worked so
smoothly
that Macentes, when night came on, took Mazaea from
her carriage, put her on his horse with himself and galloped off with
her to Arsacomas.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Elizabeth Haight - Essays on Greek Romances |
|
Magnanimity--
Contempt
of little helps, and hindrances, MAGNANIMITY.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Hobbes - Leviathan |
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Sila is ready to become my wife at any price; but I am
unwilling
at any price to make Sila my wife.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
|
' So Joyce's
quizzical
photograph
polished away, looking out at the snow ('faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead'.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
re-joyce-a-burgess |
|
On this subject there are two replies possible to the
question
whether, when a man has no other route to Mecca than one involving a sea voyage, the Pilgrimage is obligatory for him.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Arab-Historians-of-the-Crusades |
|
And even if your
education
in studies and reflections is boundless, unless you succeed in being in harmony with the Dharma, you will not tame your enemy, negative emotions.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Longchen-Rabjam-The-Final-Instruction-on-the-Ultimate-Meaning |
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They further
identify
their program with that of the socialists by joining with thetn in their acceptance of monop- oly.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Propaganda - 1943 - New Collectivist Propaganda |
|
[538]
Anyte →
[539] PERSES { H 9 } G
Heedless, Theotimus, of the coming evil setting of rainy
Arcturus
* did you set out on your perilous voyage, which carried you and your companions, racing over the Aegean in the many-oared galley, to Hades.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Greek Anthology |
|
But the sentiment from whose
barbaric
interpretation the
growing ages must release themselves, will guide the ages still.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Warner - World's Best Literature - v26 - Tur to Wat |
|
There was a noise of rising and
dressing and washing in the dormitory: a noise of
clapping
of hands as
the prefect went up and down telling the fellows to look sharp.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce |
|
-1-
The Common
Preliminary
Practice
1.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Jig-Me-Lingpa-The-Dzogchen-Innermost-Essence-Preliminary-Practice |
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Just what
Nebraska
was hoping for.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Ezra-Pound-Speaking |
|
Up the sky
The
hesitating
moon slow trembles on,
Faint as a new-washed soul but lately up
From out a buried body.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sidney Lanier |
|
The Book of Wisdom may be compard with the A B C, and How the Good Wife and Good Man taught their
Daughter
and Son, in my Babees Book, Q.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Adam Davy's Five Dreams about Edward II - 1389 |
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Scene now completed and ready to tease, he goes scampering, shouting
For all Olympus to hear: "Come, see these
glorious
deeds!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Goethe - Erotica Romana |
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, I myself
pointed to one of these
transformations
with the words "Sittlichkeit der Sitte.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Nietzsche - Works - v14 - Will to Power - a |
|
The slightest circumstance might restore it to all
its former vigor; and therefore
Martinengo
well understood that the blow
which he was about to strike must be a mortal one.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Friedrich Schiller |
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The doings ofthe body, he went on, were really too much in fashion, and they included a feeling of horror: because a body in perfect training has the upper hand, it responds automatically in its finely tuned way to every stimulus, so surely that its owner is left with an uncanny sensation of having to watch helplessly as his
character
runs off with some part of his anat- omy, as it were.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Musil - Man Without Qualities - v1 |
|
However, that I may not be
altogether
wanting to you in an affair of so much importance to your credit and happiness, I shall here give you some scattered thoughts upon the subject, such as I have gathered by reading and observation.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Swift - A Letter of Advice to a Young Poet |
|
The night renews the day
distracting
theme,
And airy terrors sable every dream.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Odyssey - Pope |
|
It stands in its place, unshakeable for all time, because its form is nothing other than the
undeconstructible
remainder of a construction that, following the plan of its architect, is built to look as it would after its own collapse.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Derrida, an Egyptian |
|
It is in this text that we first
encounter
the three different kinds of omnis?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Buddhist-Omniscience |
|
"
"What if they say I'm
seditious?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Dostoevsky - White Nights and Other Stories |
|
We have got to make our words take
physical
shape, or perish.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Orwell |
|
-- Impermanence does not necessitate discontinuation :
-- Products which undergo change moment by moment are neither
permanent
nor do they discontinue.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Aryadeva - Four Hundred Verses |
|
The project’s novelty was the decision to let these ground- breaking
thinkers
speak in their own words.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk - Art of Philosophy |
|
Which con-
tinue in existence between
elections
though not active con-
tinually?
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Beard - 1931 - Questions and Problems in American Government - Syllabus by Erbe |
|
Prithee, for this one time,
Content thee with a
visionary
rhyme.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Shelley |
|
A fine
Question!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Plato - 1701 - Works - a |
|
Memor,
distinguished
by the chaplet of Jove's oak, the glory of the Roman stage, breathes here, restored by the pencil of Apelles.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Martial - Book XI - Epigrams |
|
This Persius, being a man of fortune, had very great business
at Clazomenae, and, into the bargain, certain troublesome litigations
with King; a hardened fellow, and one who was able to exceed even King
in virulence; confident, blustering, of such a bitterness of speech,
that he would outstrip the
Sisennae
and Barri, if ever so well equipped.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Horace - Works |
|
Mary is also an abyss in
goodness
and deepest mercy; whence she obtains for us the mercy of her Son, as it were "an abyss calling upon an abyss" (Psalm 41:8).
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Mary and the Art of Prayer_Ave Maria |
|
Seen as a whole, Benjamin's studies testity to the vindictive fortune of the melancholiac who compiles an archive of
evidence
for the waywardness of the world.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Sloterdijk-A-Crystal-Palace |
|
II
SONNET
_Homme_ de constitution ordinaire, la chair n'etait-elle pas un fruit
pendu dans le verger, o journees
enfantes!
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Rimbaud - Poesie Completes |
|
The man is so prag-
maticall, that he thinks he can teach the
Parliament
how to order state
affairs, the Ministry how to frame their prayers and begin their sermons.
| Guess: |
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| Question: |
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| Answer: |
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| Source: |
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v07 |
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Thel answerd, O thou little virgin of the
peaceful
valley.
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blake-poems |
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Ông giữ chức Phó Đô Ngự sử và
được
cử đi sứ (năm 1471) sang nhà Minh (Trung Quốc).
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stella-03 |
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For the modern period we stand here upon a
relatively
safe footing.
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Windelband - History of Philosophy |
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I shall
be no ill-liking
daughter
for them, but a likely.
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Hesiod |
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scilicet ut domitis frueretur barbarus Afris,
muro sustinui Martem noctesque
cruentas
85 Collina pro turre tuli ?
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Claudian - 1922 - Loeb |
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He is
picturing
a different heroine, less
queenly, more subtle.
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Ovid - 1901 - Ovid and His Influence |
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Pues cuando ya la comunidad habra
decidido
que, en honor del difunto y
como muestra de respeto a su memoria, permaneceria callado el organo
en esta noche, hate aqui que se presenta nuestro hombre, diciendo que
el se atreve a tocarlo.
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Gustavo Adolfo Becuqer |
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Google Book Search helps readers
discover
the world's books while helping authors and publishers reach new audiences.
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Ovid - 1868 - Selections for Use in Schools |
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The precise motives of those
responsible
for these
transactions are less easy to discern.
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Strachey - Eminent Victorians |
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A
sergeant
told them they must wait, that
the Commandant could not speak to them, and that the reverend Father
Provincial does not suffer any Spaniard to open his mouth but in his
presence, or to stay above three hours in the province.
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Candide by Voltaire |
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