"Devastator" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gauntlet cast, Oppose his stern and ruthless sway, Nor armies brave, nor mountains vast, Can thwart the devastator's way. ...
— The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems • Alexander Pushkin and other authors
... impulses which stir our hearts, one only comes solely from Seth, one only belongs wholly to the Evil one and that is hatred between man and man. Covetousness may lead to industry, sensual appetites may beget noble fruit, but hatred is a devastator, and in the soul that it occupies all that is noble grows not upwards and towards the light, but downwards to the earth and to darkness. Everything may be forgiven by the Gods, save only hatred between ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers |
