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O, I am slain!

William Shakespeare
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For the want of a nail, the shoe was lose; for the want of a shoe the horse was lose; and for the want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy, all for the want of care about a horseshoe nail.

Benjamin Franklin
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Once there was The People - Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People, and it made a hell of earth! Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, oh, ye slain! Once there was The People - it shall never be again!

Rudyard Kipling
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I'm a little wounded but I'm not slain; I will lay me down for to bleed awhile, Then I'll rise and fight with you again.

John Dryden
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It's one dragon we haven't slain.

Ash Rajan
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We should not take a Memorial Day recess until we pass a proper memorial for the slain students in Littleton, Colorado, and other school gun tragedies.

John Conyers
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Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the Bible.

Day One
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He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.

Cornelius Tacitus
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HOMICIDE, n. The slaying of one human being by another. There are four kinds of homocide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy, but it makes no great difference to the person slain whether he fell by one kind or another -- the classification is for advantage of the lawyers.

Ambrose Bierce
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If poverty were a man, I would have slain him.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib
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How could you fear a dearth? Have not mankind tho' slain by millions, millions left behind?

Joel Barlow
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Although you may spend your life killing, You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

Siddha Nagarjuna
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His obituaries and feature stories about the slain soldiers of the Iraq War are valuable as history, sociology, literature, and journalism.

Marilyn Johnson
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Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer
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There is a road that turning always / Cuts off the country of Again. / Archers stand there on every side / And as it runs Time's deer is slain, / And lies where it has lain.

Edwin Muir
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The main reason for the failure of the modern medical science is that it is dealing with results and not causes. Nothing more than the patching up of those attacked and the burying of those who are slain, without a thought being given to the real strong hold.

Edward Bach
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