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The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry. -- Curt Flood
Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity. -- John Milton
There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
There is more healing joy in five minutes of true worship than in five nights of revelry. -- Aiden Wilson Tozer
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown. -- William Henry Harrison
My job as the director is to make that as authentic as I can and not to disturb the revelry. -- Scott Hicks
Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed. -- Desiderius Erasmus
And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask, and antique pageantry, Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. -- John Milton
Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence... -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
There is a remembrance of the dead, to which we turn even from the charms of the living. These we would not exchange for the song of pleasure or the bursts of revelry. -- Washington Irving
We devote the activity of our youth to revelry and the decrepitude of our old age to repentance: and we finish the farce by bequeathing our dead bodies to the chancel, which when living, we interdicted from the church. -- Charles Caleb Colton
Christmas was close at hand, in all his bluff and hearty honesty; it was the season of hospitality, merriment, and open-heartedness; the old year was preparing, like an ancient philosopher, to call his friends around him, and amidst the sound of feasting and revelry to pass gently and calmly away. -- Charles Dickens
There are those to whom a sense of religion has come in storm and tempest; there are those whom it has summoned amid scenes of revelry and idle vanity; there are those, too, who have heard its "still small voice" amid rural leisure and placid retirement. But perhaps the knowledge which causeth not to err is most frequently impressed upon the mind during the season of affliction. -- Walter Scott
It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good. -- Elisabeth Elliot

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