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But I have lived, and have not lived in vain: My mind may loose its force, my blood its fire, And my frame perish even in conquering pain; But there is that within me which shall tire Torture and Time, and breathe when I expire. Something unearthly, which they deem not of, Like the remembered tone of a mute lyre, Shall on their softened spirits sink, and move In hearts all rocky now the late remorse of love.
Rochdale— 1812-18 Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, canto 4, stanza137.
Your wickedness makes you as it were heavy as lead, and to tend downwards with great weight and pressure towards hell; and if God should let you go, you would immediately sink and switfly descend and plunge into the bottomless gulf, and your healthy constitution, and your own care and prudence, and best contrivance, and all your righteousness, would have no more influence to uphold you and keep you out of hell, than a spider's web would have to stop a fallen rock.
jonathan edwards— Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, sermon delivered in Enfield, Connecticut (July 8, 1741)
Looking round that filthy room, with raw meat lying among the refuse on the floor, and cold, clotted saucepans sprawling everywhere, and the sink blocked and coated with grease, I used to wonder whether there could be a restaurant in the world as bad as ours. But the other three all said they had been in dirtier places.
george orwell— On the state of the kitchen at the newly opened Auberge.
It was a touching answer of a Christian sailor, when asked why he remained so calm in a fearful storm, when the sea seemed ready to devour the ship. He was not sure that he could swim. "But," he said, "though I sink I shall only drop into the hollow of my Father's hand; for He holds all these waters there."
— William Arnot, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 281.
Just as Banaras is a prototype for sacred India , her sacred features are prototypes for the divine roles of the city as a whole. Foremost among these features are the Ganga and the two famous cremation grounds ( Shmashans ) along her banks. Pilgrims commonly say that Banaras is like the Mother Ganga, who accepts and purifies anyone and anything that come to her and transforms them into herself… each of these features, - the Ganga, the Shmashans and the city as a whole – functions as a kind of cosmic sink, a sacred dumping ground…
— Ronald L. Barrett, in p.29, 34 (Aghor Medicine: Pollution, Death, and Healing in Northern India (3 February 2008)])
She sang how in his ship a man would go From Belem to avenge the cruel shame. The weight it bears the ocean shall not know, That great Pacheco who shall justly claim Of Portuguese Achilles' glorious name; When he embarks, the surging waves his weight Shall feel, and all the vessel's beams and frame Shall groan oppressed beneath the burthen great, And in the water sink below its usual state.
— Translated by Robert Ffrench Duff, in The Lusiad of Camoens translated into English Spencerian verse (1880), p. 365
I pant, I sink, I tremble, I expire!
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 1821 'Epipsychidion', l.591.
This character wherewith we sink into the grave at death is the very character wherewith we shall reappear at the resurrection.
thomas chalmers— P. 180. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
How sleep the brave who sink to restBy all their country's wishes blest!
william collins— Ode written in the year 1746.
The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.
walter savage landor— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 8.
What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and only one lifeboat? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship’s axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides of the boat.
pentti linkola— The Doctrine Of Survival And Doctor Ethics (1992)
I'd rather be buried at sea than on the shore when I come to die. Will you stand by the plank, mates, so I can shake a friendly hand before I sink?
peter ustinov— Billy Budd (Billy Budd (1962))
Better to sink beneath the shockThan moulder piecemeal on the rock!
lord byron— Lord Byron, The Giaour (1813), line 969.
Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock.
lord byron— Line 969 (The Giaour (1813))
But we, who name ourselves its sovereigns, we, Half dust, half deity, alike unfit To sink or soar.
lord byron— Act I, scene ii
I may sink, but I'll be damned if I strike!
john paul jones— His much less famous response, in the late phase of the Battle of Flamborough Head, 23 September 1779, to an inquiry by his opponent (Captain Richard Pearson of the Royal Navy ship HMS Serapis) as to whether he was surrendering his ship, the USS Bonhomme Richard, which was by this time very seriously damaged.
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.
george f. kennan— "Foreword to 'The Pathology of Power'" by Norman Cousins (Norton, 1987), from At a Century's Ending: Reflections 1982-1995 (Norton, 1997, ISBN 0-393-31609-2), Part II: Cold War in Full Bloom, p. 118
As the savages whom we have instructed are ready when left to themselves to return to their ancestral mode of life, so our young people quickly forget what they have learned at school, and sink back into the commonplace existence from which a right education would have saved them.
john lancaster spalding— p. 241 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top.
abby sunderland— p. 158 (Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas (Thomas Nelson))
Better to sink beneath the shock Than moulder piecemeal on the rock!
lord byron— Lord Byron, The Giaour (1813), line 969.
We rise in glory, as we sink in pride: Where boasting ends , there dignity begins.
Edward Young— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VIII, line 508
Christians should live in the world, but not be filled with it. A ship lives in the water; but if the water gets into the ship, she goes to the bottom. So Christians may live in the world; but if the world gets into them, they sink.
— Dwight L. Moody, p. 622. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
They best pass over the world who trip over it quickly; for it is but a bog. If we stop, we sink.
— Elizabeth I of the United Kingdom, p. 622.
A load would sink a navy, too much honour.
— Wolsey, scene ii
Jerusalem the golden, With milk and honey blessed, Beneath thy contemplation sink heart and voice oppressed. I know not,O I know not What joys await us there, What radiancy of glory, What light beyond compare.
J(ames) M(ason) Neale— 1858 'Jerusalem the Golden', translated from the original Latin of St Bernard of Cluny.
