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«The Pope has swept through Africa, where 5 million people are already infected with the AIDS virus, and which expects by the end of the century to have 10 million orphans whose parents have died of AIDS - and told them not to use condoms»
«No person is ever good for much, that hasn't been swept off their feet by enthusiasm between ages twenty and thirty.»
Author: James A. Froude | Keywords: swept
«To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feelthe breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of year, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.»
«Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men»
Author: David Lloyd George (Prime Minister) | About: Anger | Keywords: quarrel, shed, swept
«Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.»
Author: Marcus Aurelius | About: Events, Time | Keywords: Current Events, swept, Swept Away
«The river of Kishon swept them away, that ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: River The, swept, tread down, trodden
«Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: garnish, garnished, swept
«Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the LORD did drive them.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: swept
«Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.»
«Those who have any intention of deviating from the beaten roads of life, and acquiring a reputation superior to names hourly swept away by time among the refuse of fame, should add to their reason and their spirit the power of persisting in their pur»

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