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untimely
«If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.»
«As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.»
«And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; / And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.»
«Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? / Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? / For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest, / With kings and counsellors of the earth, which build desolate places for themselves; / Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver: / Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.»
«Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
| About:
Authority,
Equality,
Power
| Keywords:
interchange, interchanging, stretched, unequal, untimely
«What a time experiences as evil is usually an untimely echo of what was formerly experienced as good-the atavism of a more ancient ideal.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
atavism, echo, formerly, untimely
«O Romeo, Romeo, brave Mercutio is dead! That gallant spirit hath aspired the clouds which too untimely here did scorn the earth.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
aspired, gallant, Romeo, untimely
«With spots quadrangular of diamond form,/ Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, / And spades, the emblem of untimely graves.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
| Keywords:
diamond, Graves, quadrangular, spade, spades, spots, untimely