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«As a camel beareth labour, and heat, and hunger, and thirst, through deserts of sand, and fainteth not; so the fortitude of a man shall sustain him through all perils.»
«As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.»
Author: Hans Selye | About: Approval | Keywords: approval, condemnation, dread, thirst
«As clouds are blown away by the wind, the thirst for material pleasures will be driven away by the utterance of the Lord's name.»
«Children don't read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology.... They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff.... When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don't expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.»
«But whosoever drinketh of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life (John 4:14).»
«Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.»
«And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life: he that cometh to me shall never hunger; and he that believeth on me shall never thirst (John 6:35).»
Author: Bible | Keywords: bread, hunger, john, John A, John D, thirst
«Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.»
«Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.»
«Distant water won't quench your immediate thirst.»
Author: Chinese Proverbs | Keywords: immediate, quench, thirst

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