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It is not right to glory in the slain — Homer

Love is this sudden crash in your path, quick and to the point, and nearly always it leaves someone slain on the green. — Daniel Handler

There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him. — Charles Spurgeon

The saddest face I ever saw on Martin Luther King was at the funeral of the four little girls slain in Birmingham, Alabama. — James A. Forbes

What is plucked will grow again,
What is slain lives on,
What is stolen will remain
What is gone is gone. — Peter S. Beagle

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. — Robinson Jeffers

Life for the strongest. There is no sympathy for the slain, only admiration for the winner's strength. — Terry Goodkind

Adversity hath slain her thousand, but prosperity her ten thousand. — Thomas Brooks

I am sore wounded but not slain
I will lay me down and bleed a while
And then rise up to fight again — John Dryden

Poets find their voices when they articulate the wishes of the dead, especially those slain as sacrificial talismans to a larger frame of existence. — Michael S. Harper

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help. — Homer

The chance of war Is equal, and the slayer oft is slain. — Homer

He who fights and runs away
May live to fight another day;
But he who is battle slain
Can never rise to fight again
— Oliver Goldsmith

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. — Thomas Huxley

The set of her chin suggested she might have slain a dragon before breakfast. The look in her eyes suggested she might, in fact, have eaten it. The — Katherine Rundell

The Cross did not happen to Jesus: He came on purpose for it. He is the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. — Oswald Chambers

When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain. — Bertolt Brecht

When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek. — Nicholas Stuart Gray

for it is better that we slay a coward, than through a coward all we to be slain. — Thomas Malory

Restrain yourself ... and gloat in silence. I'll have no jubilation here. It is an impious thing to exult over the slain. — Homer

Everlasting peace will come to the world when the last man has slain the last but one. — Adolf Hitler

The soul is not born; it does not die; it was not produced from anyone... Unborn, eternal, it is not slain, though the body is slain. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The peacock's plumage is its enemy: O many the king who hath been slain by his magnificence! — Maulana Jalaluddin Mohammad Balkhi

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain. — John Newton

Tolerance is not infinite patience, but slain patience; patience that has lost its hope and love and has thrown in the towel. — Criss Jami

The God of War will see fair play-he's often slain that wants to slay! — Homer

A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success. — Robert Musil

If poverty were a man, I would have slain him. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those they have slain. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain/By the false azure in the windowpane ... — Vladimir Nabokov

reasons. Included was the episode in which Shanna had slain the one. He related the plan and execution of the escape, with minor details omitted, and — Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

The wind cut like a knife up here, and shrilled in the night like a mother mourning her slain children. — George R R Martin

Stirred...the fur-toothed graves of young boys...a thousand slain in the time it would take to do love with a pretty girl or think of a new God. — Kenneth Patchen

I am Bard, and by my hand was the dragon slain and your treasure delivered. — J.R.R. Tolkien

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again. — Tacitus

I had slain my demons already, but the victories were fleeting; others had risen up quickly to replace them. My — Ransom Riggs

Surely it is the sight of your enemy slain, the humiliation of his tribe and the lamentation of his women. — Terry Pratchett

I'm a little wounded, but I am not slain; I will lay me down to bleed a while. Then I'll rise and fight again. — John Dryden

Popularity has slain more prophets of God than persecution ever did. — Vance Havner

You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily! — Francis Schaeffer

If you are slain in battle, you should be resolved to have your corpse facing the enemy. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo

The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain. — Phil Ochs

With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body. — Thomas Malory

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men. — Plutarch

I write so the endangered thoughts roaming naked and vulnerable through the misty jungles of my mind aren't slain by the guns of practical living. — Kim Krizan

Your life will be filled with good things, for the demons are slain; and you will inherit Eden — Anne Rice

I dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain. — Seth Grahame-Smith

Literature's father figures can only loom, intimidate, and inspire for so long before they must be slain by their offspring. — Larry McCaffery

When you're in the middle of a killing field and the fucking Chooser of the Slain tells you to do something, you do it. — Kevin Hearne

It is not right to exult over slain men. — Homer

Murder is murder,as much a curse to the slayer as to the slain, and cannot be a matter of indifference, whoever the dead may be. — Ellis Peters

When Christian Grey has nightmares, he dreams of Frank. — Eddie Slain

As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, Death lies dead. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

Wrongly chosen, wrongly slain, A hero Valhalla cannot contain. Nine days hence the sun must go east, Ere Sword of Summer unbinds the beast. — Rick Riordan

Odor of blood when Christ was slain Made all Platonic tolerance vain And vain all Doric discipline. — William Butler Yeats

How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind? — Joel Barlow

I asked to use the bathroom and sat, recovering, on the edge of a marble bath on a dais - the kind Greek husbands are slain in. — Olivia Sudjic

Wanting to be the best in what you do but unwilling to be slain by critics on the way to your top is a recipe to remain mediocre... — Assegid Habtewold

All breathing, existing, living, sentient creatures should not be slain, nor treated with violence, nor abused, nor tormented, nor driven away. — Mahavira

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train. — Charles Wesley

Insatiate archer! could not one suffice? Thy shaft flew thrice, and thrice my peace was slain; And thrice, ere thrice yon moon had filled her horn. — Edward Young

Even in rags I am a god,fallen I am divine,high I triumph when down-trod,long I live when slain! — Sri Aurobindo

If this were a fairy tale, that meant the dragon had been slain. Or hadn't arrived yet. — Barry Webster

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part. — Thomas Paine

Prosperity hath slain the foolish and wounded the wise. — John Owen

And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay! He chortled in his joy. — Lewis Carroll

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain;
If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death! — Dorothy L. Sayers

Look at him, he's slain another dangling participle. — Skip Coryell

A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo. — Joseph Campbell

She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh — Kim Cormack

They must be slain by the Law before they can be made alive by the gospel. — Charles Spurgeon

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death. — John Calvin

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain. — Nagarjuna

Now must we sing and sing the best we can,
But first you must be told your character:
Convicted cowards all, by kindred slain. — William Butler Yeats

To succeed perseverance yells "pain to gain".
If you don't take heed, you'll end up slain! — Manuela George-Izunwa

Cheer up O faint-hearted warrior. Not only has Christ traveled the road - but He has slain your enemies! — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

In your books I have flung myself into the bottomless pit, performed miracles, slain, burned towns, preached new religions, conquered whole kingdoms — Anton Chekhov

If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! — Marie De France

War is an ill thing, as I surely know. But 'twould be an ill world for weaponless dreamers if evil men were not now and then slain. — Rudyard Kipling

Morality, thou deadly bane,Thy tens o' thousands thou has slain! — Robert Burns

slain, after all man's devices had failed, by the humblest things that God, in — H.G.Wells

Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood. — Manel Loureiro

She hadn't slain the dragon. Not at all. She hoped no one ever would. — Meg Cabot

The SAFE was slain in battle. A great flaming nautical pyre carries it off to VAULTHALLA. — Andrew Hussie

With God, the fear of failure is slain cold by success that is already hot on the way. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its ten thousands. — Sean O'Casey