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The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue.
It is not your sin--it is your self-satisfaction that crieth unto heaven; your very sparingness in sin crieth unto heaven!
I will speak unto them of the most contemptible thing: that, however, is THE LAST MAN!"
Too long, perhaps, have I lived in the mountains; too much have I hearkened unto the brooks and trees: now do I speak unto them as unto the goatherds.
But still am I far from them, and my sense speaketh not unto their sense.
An old man appeared, who carried a light, and asked: "Who cometh unto me and my bad sleep?"
'Twixt rosy dawn and rosy dawn there came unto me a new truth.
Not any more will I discourse unto the people; for the last time have I spoken unto the dead.
To the lone-dwellers will I sing my song, and to the twain-dwellers; and unto him who hath still ears for the unheard, will I make the heart heavy with my happiness.
"It's not just moral, ethical, right or wrong, it's the law of humanity to do unto others as you would have them do unto you.
11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not.
QUETTA -- The contract employees of the Balochistan Development Authority (BDA) who were on unto death hunger strike called off their unto death hunger strike after successful negotiation with the provincial government on Friday night.
Then We sent unto her Our Spirit and it assumed for her the likeness of a perfect man.
IANS Panaji A Goa-based activist on Friday threatened to go on a fast unto death if ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar did not resign and hand over the reins of the state administration to a"physically fit" successor.
Though I say the first, more to me, if you asked for a self-introduction, chances are it would begin this way 'Lanre Adewole, a bonafide child of God.' Two, if you ask me for commitment, either official or otherwise, you are certain to get from me, 'As Unto God'.
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