Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
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The church is Christ's dove; she returns to him, as her Noah. Christ is the Rock, in whom alone she can think herself safe, and find herself easy, as a dove in the hole of a rock, when struck at by the birds of prey.
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This thought runs through Song of Solomon 2:14-15.
Song of Solomon 2:15 quoted in popular culture
- Aaron Weiss
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- Bette Davis
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- Cynicism
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Wikiquote match for "little foxes" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "little foxes". Snippet: Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman in The Little Foxes (1939) Your universities teach you to be eternal cynics, a cynicism that
- Foxes
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Wikiquote match for "little foxes" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "little foxes". Snippet: Story", Legends of the Old Plantation, Ch XII. Take us the foxes, the little foxes , that spoil the vines (...) Song of Solomon, II 15. Honteux comme un
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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- Lillian Hellman
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Wikiquote match for "little foxes" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "little foxes". Snippet: stand and watch them do it. The Little Foxes (1939) Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. The Little Foxes (1939) For every man who lives
- List of films (J–L)
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- Pauline Kael
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Wikiquote match for "little foxes" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "little foxes". Snippet: Lillian Hellman couldn't shake off the predatory Hubbards after The Little Foxes ; she wrote this play about the same family, setting it back 30 years
- Regret
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Wikiquote match for "little foxes" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "little foxes". Snippet: for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes (1865), Ch. 3 I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. Publilius
- Song of Solomon
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Wikiquote match for "little foxes" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "little foxes". Snippet: is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. Take us the foxes, the little foxes , that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes. My beloved is
- Swedish proverbs
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Wikiquote match for "little foxes" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "little foxes". Snippet: it ain't right to stand and watch them do it." Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes (1939) Source: Holm (1981), p. 9 Den som viskar han ljuger. Translation:
- Tallulah Bankhead
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Wikiquote match for "little foxes" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "little foxes". Snippet: Den" by Jeffrey Lyons, Dayton Daily News (March 4, 1943), p. 25 On The Little Foxes I begged the producer, Samuel Goldwyn, to let Tallulah Bankhead play
- The Little Foxes (film)
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Wikiquote match for "little foxes" · Wikiquote search matched the biblical phrase "little foxes". Snippet: The Little Foxes is a 1941 film about the ruthless, moneyed Hubbard clan who lives in, and poisons, their part of the Deep South at the turn of the twentieth