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[I] never lost my belief, in the midst of setbacks which were not spared me during my period of struggle. Providence has had the last word and brought me success.
Adolf Hitler— speech, 23 November 1939
The prisoners [transferred to labor camps] would have been spared a great deal of misery if they had been taken straight into the gas chambers at Auschwitz.
— Rudolf Höss, commandant of Auschwitz. Awake! magazine, The Holocaust—Yes, It Really Happened!, April 8, 1989.
De toutes choses ne m'est demeure que l'honneur et la vie qui est saulve. Of all I had, only honour and life have been spared.
Francis I— 1525 Letter to his mother, Louise of Savoy, after his defeat and capture by Charles Vat Pavia, 24 Feb. Collected in Collection des documents ine dits sur l'histoire de France (1847), vol.1.
We knew that we had created a new means of warfare, and the question as to what nation, to what victorious nation we were willing to entrust this brainchild of ours was a moral decision more than anything else. We wanted to see the world spared another conflict such as Germany had just been through, and we felt that only by surrendering such a weapon to people who are guided by the Bible could such an assurance to the world be best secured.
wernher von braun— Arts & Entertainment, Biography (1959–1961 series). Mike Wallace, television biography of Wernher von Braun, video clip of the press statement. (May 1945)
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!
cicero— From the Second Philippic Against Antony.
M. Tyndall hearing thys, ful of godly zeale, and not bearing that blasphemous saying, replied againe & sayde: I defie the Pope and all his lawes: and further added, that if God spared hym life, ere many yeares he would cause a boy that driueth the plough to know more of the Scripture, then he did.
john foxe— Bk. 8, p. 1076
Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.
wilhelm keitel— After receiving the death sentence, quoted in "Nuremberg Diary" by G. M. Gilbert - History - 1995
Why should God wish to take a thoroughbred like Matty so soon, and leave some others down here that could well be spared?
kenesaw mountain landis— Lamenting on the death of the famously virtuous former N.Y. Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson in 1925. Quoted in Christopher Hodge Evans, William R. Herzog, The Faith of Fifty Million: Baseball, Religion, and American Culture (Westminster John Knox Press, 2002, ISBN 0664223052), p. 77. [1]
There could be joy in destruction, too, couldn’t there? Isn’t Jesus Christ’s Second Coming supposed to occur only after a lot of unmitigated destruction? But again, human history is fraught with tragedies in which man spared no effort to destroy with millenarian joy, only to learn that no messiah appeared afterwards.
kenzaburō Ōe— p 90
Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.
cardinal richelieu— As quoted in The Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), edited by Charles George Herbermann
He spared the child and spoiled the rodI have not sold myself to God!
Patti Smith— Babelogue, from Easter (1978)
Yet malice never was his aim;He lashed the vice but spared the name.No individual could resent,Where thousands equally were meant.His satire points at no defectBut what all mortals may correct;For he abhorred that senseless tribeWho call it humor when they gibe.
jonathan swift— Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift, l. 459 (1731)
He is in this sense the most original poet now living, and the one whose writings could the least be spared: for they have no substitute elsewhere. The vulgar do not read them; the learned, who see all things through books, do not understand them; the great despise. The fashionable may ridicule them: but the author has created himself an interest in the heart of the retired and lonely student of nature, which can never die.
william wordsworth— William Hazlitt The Spirit of the Age, "Mr. Wordsworth" (1825).
Thought the fool is to be pitied, still he is spared watching spurious wisdom turn to ashes in his head.
henry s. haskins— p. 115 (Meditations in Wall Street (1940))
He, who is gone, was one of the very kindest friends I possessed, and yet he was not kinder perhaps to me, than to others. His intense mind and powerful feelings would, I truly believe, have done the world some service, had his life been spared but he was of too sensitive a nature and thus he was destroyed!
john keats— John Hamilton Reynolds
Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.
john stuart mill— Ch. 1: Childhood and Early Education (pp. 21-22)
Regeneration is, we know, instantaneous; but the steps that lead to it are often very gradual; and none of them, so far as we can see, can be spared.
— Talbot W. Chambers, p. 492. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
My fiance and I are having a little disagreement. What I want is a big church wedding with bridesmaids and flowers and a no-expense-spared reception; what he wants is to break off our engagement.
Sally Poplin— English humor writer, sometimes thought to actually be writer Fred Metcalf
That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!
— From the Second Philippic Against Antony.
As I follow no leader save Christ, so I communicate with none but your blessedness, that is, with the Chair of Peter. For this, I know, is the rock on which the Church is built. … This is the ark of Noah, and he who is not found in it shall perish when the flood prevails. … And as for heretics, I have never spared them; on the contrary, I have seen to it in every possible way that the Church's enemies are also my enemies.
— Jerome, (405–420), Manual of Patrology and History of Theology.
Sporks, for those of you who have been spared, are the dreaded half-spoon, half-fork utensils handed out by some fast-food places that have tines too short to spear anything but are strategically placed to make sure anything liquid winds up on your necktie, blouse, shirt or navel - depending on your choice of attire.
— Jan Glidewell, St. Petersburg Times, July 28, 1996.
However, living in Tel Aviv, he was spared the fate of equivalent figures in English culture, an endless round of arts programmes where those who have known the famous are publicly debriefed of their memories, knowing as their own dusk falls that they will be remembered only for remembering someone else.
Alan Bennett— "Kafka in Las Vegas", p. 347Referring to Max Brod
Sporks, for those of you who have been spared, are the dreaded half-spoon, half-fork utensils handed out by some fast-food places that have tines too short to spear anything but are strategically placed to make sure anything liquid winds up on your necktie, blouse, shirt or navel - depending on your choice of attire.
jan Glidewell— St. Petersburg Times, July 28, 1996.
