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Sabine Baring-Gould
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“Onward, Christian soldiers, marching as to war, With the cross of Jesus going on before. Christ, the royal Master, leads against the foe; Forward into battle see His banners go!”
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) first seen 1871 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Onward, Christian Soldiers", st. 1 (1871)
“We are not divided, all one body we, One in hope and doctrine, one in charity.”
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Jesus, give the weary Calm and sweet repose. With Thy tend'rest blessing May our eyelids close.”
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) first seen 1895 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Now the Day Is Over", reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 614
“Startling though the assertion may be, it is a matter of fact, that man, naturally, in common with other carnivora, is actuated by an impulse to kill, and by a love of destroying life. ... The propensity, however, exists in different degrees. In some it is manifest simply as indifference to suffering, in others it appears as simple pleasure in seeing killed, and in others again it is dominant as an irresistible desire to torture and destroy.”
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“A child will gloat over the sufferings of a wounded animal till his mother bids him "put it out of its misery." An unsophisticated child would not dream of terminating the poor creature's agonies abruptly, any more than he would swallow whole a bon-bon till he had well sucked it.”
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“An old soldier, who had been in Waterloo, informed me that to his mind there was no pleasure equal to running a man through the body, and that he could lie awake at night musing on the pleasurable sensations afforded him by that act.”
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I have seen an accomplished young woman of considerable refinement and of a highly strung nervous temperament, string flies with her needle on a piece of thread, and watch complacently their flutterings.”
Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) said by 1924 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source