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1  The work is going ahead there too.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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2  The poison tongue of Satan had done its work.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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3  His white silk badge fluttered and fluttered as he worked at the next sum and heard Father Arnall's voice.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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4  It is a fire which proceeds directly from the ire of God, working not of its own activity but as an instrument of Divine vengeance.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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5  His days and works and thoughts could make no atonement for him, the fountains of sanctifying grace having ceased to refresh his soul.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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6  I'm a democrat and I'll work and act for social liberty and equality among all classes and sexes in the United States of the Europe of the future.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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7  Jesus too had been born in poverty and had worked in the shop of a carpenter, cutting boards and planing them, and had first spoken of the kingdom of God to poor fishermen, teaching all men to be meek and humble of heart.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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8  A second laugh, taking rise from the first after a pause, broke from him involuntarily as he thought of how the man with the hat worked, considering in turn the four points of the sky and then regretfully plunging his spade in the earth.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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9  He saw the heads of his classmates meekly bent as they wrote in their notebooks the points they were bidden to note, nominal definitions, essential definitions and examples or dates of birth or death, chief works, a favourable and an unfavourable criticism side by side.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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10  Death, a cause of terror to the sinner, is a blessed moment for him who has walked in the right path, fulfilling the duties of his station in life, attending to his morning and evening prayers, approaching the holy sacrament frequently and performing good and merciful works.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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11  That was the work of devils, to scatter his thoughts and over-cloud his conscience, assailing him at the gates of the cowardly and sin-corrupted flesh: and, praying God timidly to forgive him his weakness, he crawled up on to the bed and, wrapping the blankets closely about him, covered his face again with his hands.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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12  Death and judgement, brought into the world by the sin of our first parents, are the dark portals that close our earthly existence, the portals that open into the unknown and the unseen, portals through which every soul must pass, alone, unaided save by its good works, without friend or brother or parent or master to help it, alone and trembling.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
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