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«Heaven-born, the soul a heavenward course must hold; beyond the world she soars; the wise man, I affirm, can find no rest in that which perishes, nor will he lend his heart to ought that doth time depend»
Author: Michelangelo
| About:
Heart,
Heaven,
Soul,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
affirm, heavenward, lend, perishes, soars
«Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day.»
Author: Peace Pilgrim
(Spiritual leader, Teacher)
| Keywords:
commission, commissioned, Commissions, Commission on, day after day, fall short, fall short of, omission, omissions, passionless, perishes, perishing, purposeless, short
«I am the family face; / Flesh perishes, I live on, / Projecting trait and trace / Through time to times anon, / And leaping from place to place / Over oblivion.»
Author: Thomas Hardy
(Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
anon, flesh, leaping, live on, oblivion, perishes, projecting, The Family, trace, trait
«If individuality has no play, society does not advance; if individuality breaks out of all bounds, society perishes»
Author: Thomas Henry Huxley
(Biologist)
| Keywords:
advance, bounds, individualities, individuality, perishes
«Everything passes, everything perishes, everything palls.»
«He dies twice who perishes by his own hand»
Author: Latin Proverb
| Keywords:
perishes
«If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.»
«Engrossed in egotism, the world perishes. Without the Guru, there is utter darkness. In emotional attachment to Maya, they have forgotten the Great Giver, the Giver of Peace.»
«How shall I know thee in the sphere which keepsThe disembodied spirits of the dead,When all of thee that time could wither sleepsAnd perishes among the dust we tread?»
Author: William Cullen Bryant
(Writer)
| Keywords:
disembodied, disembodied spirit, perishes, sphere
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