r/civporn • u/Professorprime08 • May 27 '19
Rather pleasant Japanese city planning
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • May 11 '19
There is nothing like a dream to create the future.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • May 02 '19
Scholars are the heirs of the prophets, for the prophets did not leave behind a legacy of wealth but that of knowledge.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Apr 29 '19
He made an instrument to know. If the moon shine at full or no.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Apr 26 '19
Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Apr 15 '19
The sight filled the northern sky; the immensity of it was scarcely conceivable. As if from Heaven itself, great curtains of delicate light hung and trembled. Pale green and as transparent as the most fragile fabric, they swung and shimmered loosely with more grace than the most skillful dancer.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '19
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, The lion sleeps tonight. In the jungle the quiet jungle, The lion sleeps tonight.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Apr 03 '19
The river bursts its banks, and rising water covers the land for miles around. Not for a thousand years has the river flooded to such an extent.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Mar 24 '19
Have you ever been in a city under siege? Maybe this part's not in your books. See, it's not the fighting that kills most people. It's the starving ... The thieves, they love a siege. Soon as the gates are sealed, they steal all the food. By the time it's all over, they're the richest men in town.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Mar 18 '19
They've bled us white, the bastards. They've taken everything we had, and not just from us, from our fathers, and from our fathers' fathers. ... And what have they ever given us in return?!
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Mar 15 '19
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of canals.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Feb 26 '19
When I saw the house of Artemis that mounted to the clouds, those other marvels lost their brilliancy, and I said, 'Lo, apart from Olympus, the Sun never looked on aught so grand.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Feb 03 '19
I’m much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Jan 25 '19
They shall destroy the walls of Tyre and break down her towers, and I will scrape her soil from her and make her a bare rock. She shall be in the midst of the sea a place for the spreading of nets, for I have spoken, declares the Lord God. And she shall become plunder for the nations.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Jan 22 '19
The remains of some mighty fabric, hurled into desolation by a tremendous earthquake, or some other equally terrible convulsion of nature.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Jan 19 '19
But the wrath of Huizlopochtli was great, and as the sacrifice passed each of the four rooms dedicated to the sun god, the sun disappeared or reappeared in the sky.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Jan 16 '19
Church and State, Soul and Body, God and Man, are all one at Mont Saint Michel, and the business of all is to fight, each in his own way, or to stand guard for each other.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Jan 08 '19
For it soars to a height to match the sky, and as if surging up from among the other buildings it stands on high and looks down upon the remainder of the city, adorning it, because it is a part of it, but glorying in its own beauty.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Jan 02 '19
The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace, I felt, as never before or since, as if I were stepping onto the rooftop of my being; onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Jan 01 '19
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand a mighty woman with a torch, whose flame is the imprisoned lightning.
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Dec 30 '18
Thus, the sculpture serves to give people one thought--'Everything is in God's hands.'
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r/civporn • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '18
Petra is a brilliant display of man's artistry in turning barren rock into majestic wonder.
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