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Lifeblood   /lˈaɪfblˌəd/   Listen
Lifeblood

noun
1.
The blood considered as the seat of vitality.
2.
An essential or life-giving force.






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"Lifeblood" Quotes from Famous Books



... 'Neither hath this man sinned nor his parents, but he is born blind that the works of God may be made manifest in him.' That is to say, human sorrow is to be looked at by us as an opportunity for the manifestation through us of God's mercy in relieving and stanching the wounds through which the lifeblood is ebbing away. Do not stand coldly curious or uncharitably censorious. Do not make miserable men theological problems, but see in them a call for service. See in them an opportunity for letting the light of God, so much of it as is ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren

... of San Francisco, and ended his voyage by circumnavigating the globe. (See map facing p. 222.) In the Far East, London merchants had established the East India Company, the beginning of English dominion in Asia; while in Holland, Sir Philip Sydney gave his lifeblood for the ...
— The Leading Facts of English History • D.H. Montgomery

... these are the true lifeblood of the country to which they belong. They elevate and uphold it, fortify and ennoble it, and shed a glory over it by the example of life and character which they have bequeathed. "The names and memories of great men," says an able writer, "are the dowry of a nation. Widowhood, overthrow, ...
— Character • Samuel Smiles

... the disturbance of war's reaction. Herein flows the lifeblood of material existence. The economic mechanism is intricate and its parts interdependent, and has suffered the shocks and jars incident to abnormal demands, credit inflations, and price upheavals. The normal balances have ...
— United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches - From Washington to George W. Bush • Various

... dependent on logic, and nothing to do with the feeling's; —belief that is not sublimated into faith;—a system of arteries and veins infiltrated with some colored substance, like the specimens in an anatomical museum, but in which none of the lifeblood of religion circulates. But surely,' he would say, 'it does not follow, that, because there has been belief without faith, there is or can be any independent of some belief, or an acceptable faith ...
— The Eclipse of Faith - Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic • Henry Rogers



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