Rebecca Harding Davis Quotes
... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.
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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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Ideas are infinite, original, and lively divine thoughts.
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I have been doing music all my life so everyday when I get up I expect music will be part of it.
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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.
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And divine grace is the inestimable treasure through which vile creatures and servants like ourselves become dear friends of our Creator.
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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.
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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.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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Divine is the task to relieve pain.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Disbelieve nothing wonderful concerning the gods, nor concerning divine dogmas.
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Hell is nothing else but nature departed or excluded from the beam of divine light.
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When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
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It is of itself that the divine thought thinks, and its thinking is a thinking on thinking. Our characters are the result of our conduct.
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Nature is a burning and frigid, transparent and limited universe in which nothing is possible but everything is given.
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Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.
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You are burning, burning this heart of mine. You’re burning right through my veins tonight. You’re in my blood.
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Dont worry about people telling you to stop doing too much and that you will burn out. Burning out is mental, and if you are tough you can do anything.
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You are right in speaking of the moral foundations of science, but you cannot turn around and speak of the scientific foundations of morality.
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Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.
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The idea of legally establishing inalienable, inherent and sacred rights of the individual is not of political but religious origin.
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... while the light burning within may have been divine, the outer case of the lamp was assuredly cheap enough.
