#asunder

The beauty of the world, which is so soon to perish, has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ↗

— W. E. B. Du Bois

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Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

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Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

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Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must submit. ↗

— Algernon Sidney

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Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together; Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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