With all her masculine vigour and glory, Greece fell, gradually atrophied, because one half of her had been, of set purpose, intel...lectually and politically paralyzed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is it then to me, if impious War, Arrayed in flames like to the prince of fiends,... Do with his smirched complexion all fell feats Enlinked to waste and desolation?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been, my senses would have cooled... To hear a night-shriek, and my fell of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir As life were in't. I have supped full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;... When sometime lofty towers I see down-rased, And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the wat'ry main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay, Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell into the hands of robbers, who stripped him, beat him, and went away, lea...ving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side. ... But a Samaritan while traveling came near him; and when he saw him, he was moved with pity. He went to him and bandaged his wounds, having poured oil and wine on them. Then he put him on his own animal, brought him to an inn, and took care of him. The next day he took out two denarii, gave them to the innkeeper, and said, 'Take care of him; and when I come back, I will repay you whatever more you spend.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And everyone who hears these words of mine and does not act on them will be like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The ra...in fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell-and great was its fall!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »