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«Marriage is like a besieged castle; those who are on the outside wish to get in; and those who are on the inside wish to get out.»
«The best men are not those who have waited for chances but who have taken them; besieged the chance; conquered the chance; and made chance the servitor.»
«So the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.»
«Then Pharaoh's army was come forth out of Egypt: and when the Chaldeans that besieged Jerusalem heard tidings of them, they departed from Jerusalem.»
«This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: / There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: / Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.»
«I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.»
«It was not reason that besieged Troy; it was not reason that sent forth the Saracen from the desert to conquer the world; that inspired the crusades; that instituted the monastic orders; it was not reason that produced the Jesuits; above all, it was not reason that created the French Revolution. Man is only great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
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«I have digged and drunk strange waters, and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of besieged places.»
«Then Rezin king of Syria and Pekah son of Remaliah king of Israel came up to Jerusalem to war: and they besieged Ahaz, but could not overcome him.»
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