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«Lust is the craving for salt of a man who is dying of thirst»
Author: Frederick Buechner (Author) | About: Lust | Keywords: craving, lust, salt, thirst
«In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.»
«If I could only weep,I think sweet help with my salt tears would come,To ease the cruel pain that is so dumb,And will not let me sleep.»
Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox | Keywords: cruel, dumb, ease, salt, weep
«I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost»
«Now the great winds shoreward blow, / Now the salt tides seaward flow; / Now the wild white horses play, / Champ and chafe and toss in the spray.»
«Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.»
Author: Nelson Mandela (Statesman) | Keywords: salt, salt water
«Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth»
«Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.»
«No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body - to risk his well-being - to risk his life - in a great cause»
«Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man»

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