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Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

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• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Reason
  • Nothing
  • Divine

• The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Will
  • Order
  • Divine

• Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Ideas
  • Thoughts
  • Divine

• This life is for us to discover the divine within. And that's really the key to life in many ways for me. And the thing is, it's not for us to reason why everything is what it is... just do it.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Why
  • Reason

• If someone were to say seriously, "I'm divine," she'd have to be locked up. There are lots of people in mental institutions going around saying "I'm God." But because I'm funny about it, they haven't locked me up yet. And I don't give myself airs, either.

  

  Bette Midler
  • People
  • Up
  • God

• I'm mad about God! That's why I'm divine.

  

  Bette Midler
  • God
  • Why
  • Mad

• The severest prosecutions have never been followed by revelations changing a divine law, obedience to which brought imprisonment or martyrdom. Though I go to prison, God will not change his law of celestial marriage.

  

  Lorenzo Snow
  • God
  • Law
  • Marriage

• And divine grace is the inestimable treasure through which vile creatures and servants like ourselves become dear friends of our Creator.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Friends
  • Divine
  • Creator

• You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

  

  Anne Carson
  • Good
  • God
  • Doubt

• Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Shadow
  • Shine
  • Divine

• If you think humanity can get itself out of all this mess without divine help, then you're not being hopeful - you're hallucinating.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Help
  • Think
  • Humanity

• We are...a Divine work of art, something that God is making...something with which He will not be satisfied until it has a certain character.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • God
  • Art

• Suffering is part of the divine idea.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Suffering
  • Idea
  • Divine

• Divine is the task to relieve pain.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Pain
  • Divine
  • Task

• No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

  

  Aristotle
  • Justice
  • Happiness
  • Blessing

• Melancholy men of all others are most witty, which causeth many times a divine ravishment, and a kinde of Enthusiasmus, which stirreth them up to bee excellent Philosophers, Poets, Prophets, etc.

  

  Aristotle
  • Divine
  • Poets
  • Witty

• Words learn'd by rote a parrot may rehearse, But talking is not always to converse, Not more distinct from harmony divine The constant creaking of a country sign.

  

  William Cowper
  • Country
  • Harmony
  • Divine

• Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Peace
  • Divine
  • Cherish

• When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Divine
  • Mission
  • Credulous

• I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

  

  Virgil Thomson
  • Food
  • Said
  • Might

• I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath--a rank--a throne--a grave-- The world goes round forever; I think that life is not too long, And therefore I determine, That many people read a song, Who will not read a sermon.

  

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Some thoughtlessly proclaim the Muses nine: A tenth is Sappho, maid divine.

  

  Plato
  • Divine
  • Proclaim
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