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For though I still thought that the grounds upon which I had formed my suspicions of the man were reasonable grounds, and justified all my apprehensions, still I could not resist an uncomfortable feeling that perhaps, after all, I might have misjudged the man, and that in any case I was the instrument the unwitting instrument, but still the instrument none the less of sending a fellow-creature before his Maker with the stigma of self-slaughter upon his soul.
Agitated by his senses, for whatever good and evil has been done at the outset and having enjoyed or suffered the fruits of these, he once more becomes indifferent to his acts of self-slaughter. Alas, the world is deceived, and covetousness brings it under its dominion. Deprived of understanding by covetousness, wrath, and fear, one knows not one's own self.
When we know that the Saracens are in the city, let us set fire to this convent and get us to our knees and so perish." "Well spoken; it is best," muttered several. But the abbess answered with a sad smile: "High counsel indeed, such as might be looked for from high blood. Yet it may not be taken, since self-slaughter is a deadly sin."
As I abandoned thee to die with cold and hunger, he has forsaken, and has driven me to die by self-slaughter." She now fixed her eager eyes on the distant pond, and walked more nimbly than before, to rid herself of her agonising sensations. Just as she had nearly reached the wished-for brink, she heard a footstep, and saw, by the glimmering of a clouded moon, a man approaching.
Is not this self-slaughter, this theory in accordance with which a man shall devote himself to death at a certain period? And if a man may not slay himself, how shall he then, in the exercise of his poor human wit, devote a fellow-creature to certain death?" "And he as well as ever he was in his life," said Tallowax in the gallery. "My friend does well to remind me.
France must have lost her place among the European nations had she been longer permitted to prey upon her own vitals. One individual alone could have condemned her to this self-slaughter, and we have delivered her from the peril by committing that individual to the Bastille."
What followed in the lady's chamber, I have already given in his own words. When he fled from the chalet, it was with self-slaughter in his heart. But he endured in the comfort of the thought that the door of death was always open, that he might enter when he would.
And self-slaughter, though it may be called madness, is far more often the result of intellectual misery." "Of course, too much learning breeds brain disease" remarked Dr. Mudley sententiously "but only in weak subjects, and in my opinion the weak are better out of the world. We've no room for them nowadays." "You say truly, sir," replied Alwyn "we have no room for them, and no patience!
He, too, had often thought of self-slaughter in an abstract way as the final defiance; but here was a mere girl for whom life held so little that she craved for and dared death. A remembrance of his own sister came back to him, softening his heart to pity. He touched Lucy's arm gently. 'And when you were thanking me just now, he said, 'you 'I lied?
Our foes, the Kurus, have gained in prosperity, while we have become divested of all the objects of life, for what fruits of righteousness can be ours when we have been guilty of self-slaughter? Fie on the usages of Kshatriyas, fie on might and valour, and fie on wrath, since through these such a calamity hath overtaken us.
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