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withheld
«In prison, those things withheld from and denied to the prisoner become precisely what he wants most of all.»
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
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denied, precisely, prison, prisoner, The Prisoner, The Prisoner of, wants, withheld, withholding, withholds
«Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.»
Author: Eldridge Cleaver
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be given, commands, due, withheld, withholding, withholds, With all due respect
«And the angel of the LORD called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time, / And said, By myself have I sworn, saith the LORD, for because thou hast done this thing, and hast not withheld thy son, thine only son: / That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; / And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.»
«And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.»
«And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.»
Author: Bible
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Against Me, sinning, suffered, withheld, withholding, withholds, yea, yeas
«And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb? / And she said, Behold my maid Bilhah, go in unto her; and she shall bear upon my knees, that I may also have children by her.»
«And he said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.»
«Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?»
«Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
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charities, justice, substitute, substituted, substituting, withheld, withholding, withholds
«Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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casts, cast out, condemned to death, consign, consigned, consigns, corpse, cruelly, human soul, Law of the Sea, penal, pitiless, remorseless, withheld