Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.
Rebecca Harding Davis
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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
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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
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Divine is the task to relieve pain.
Hippocrates
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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
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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
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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
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But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.
Plato
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Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
Pythagoras
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There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.
Albert Einstein
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Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
William Law
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Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife,
No sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,
But 'banished' to kill me--'banished'?
O friar, the damned use that word in hell;
Howling attends it! How hast thou the heart,
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver, and my friend professed,
To mangle me with that word 'banished'?
William Shakespeare
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A DIVINE IMAGE Cruelty has a human heart, And Jealousy a human face; Terror the human form divine, And Secresy the human dress. The human dress is forged iron, The human form a fiery forge, The human face a furnace sealed, The human heart its hungry gorge.
William Blake
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I've always believed, in my heart of hearts, that it would be a better show if, when I crossed over to the desk, the band kept playing for an hour and I danced in a cage.
Conan O'Brien
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Ah, why Should we, in the world's riper years, neglect God's ancient sanctuaries, and adore Only among the crowd and under roofs That our frail hands have raised?
William Cullen Bryant
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... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.
Rebecca Harding Davis
