Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coal...s thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), ...robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual's own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness--but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is prepar...ing for the impression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eter...nal, immutable and increated wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In his green den the murmuring seal Close by his sleek companion lies;... While singly we to bedward steal, And close in fruitless sleep our eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal o...f the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I conjure thee, and all the oaths which I And thou have sworn to seal joint constancy,... Here I unswear, and overswear them thus, Thou shalt not love by ways so dangerous. Temper, O fair Love, love's impetuous rage, Be my true Mistress still, not my feign'd Page; I'll go, and, by thy kind leave, leave behind Thee, only worthy to nurse in my mind Thirst to come back;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »