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Letter "D" » divines
«Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and the of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.»
Author: Chanakya
(Politician, strategist, Writer)
| Keywords:
desires, divined, divines, divining, senses
«Love a man, even in his sin, for that love is a likeness of the divine love, and is the summit of love on earth»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Love
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Divine, divines, divine being, Divine love, likeness, likenesses, on earth, sin, summit, summits, The Summit
«Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.»
Author: Auguste Rodin
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Art
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animated, contemplation, divines, divine spirit, searches
«Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so. It is not so. It is so. It is not so.»
«INFIDEL, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian religion; in Constantinople, one who does. (See GIAOUR.) A kind of scoundrel imperfectly reverent of, and niggardly contributory to, divines, ecclesiastics, popes, parsons, canons, monks, mollahs, voodoos, presbyters, hierophants, prelates, obeah-men, abbes, nuns, missionaries, exhorters, deacons, friars, hadjis, high-priests, muezzins, brahmins, medicine-men, confessors, eminences, elders, primates, prebendaries, pilgrims, prophets, imaums, beneficiaries, clerks, vicars-choral, archbishops, bishops, abbots, priors, preachers, padres, abbotesses, caloyers, palmers, curates, patriarchs, bonezs, santons, beadsmen, canonesses, residentiaries, diocesans, deans, subdeans, rural deans, abdals, charm-sellers, archdeacons, hierarchs, class-leaders, incumbents, capitulars, sheiks, talapoins, postulants, scribes, gooroos, precentors, beadles, fakeers, sextons, reverences, revivalists, cenobites, perpetual curates, chaplains, mudjoes, readers, novices, vicars, pastors, rabbis, ulemas, lamas, sacristans, vergers, dervises, lectors, church wardens, cardinals, prioresses, suffragans, acolytes, rectors, cures, sophis, mutifs and pumpums.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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abbot, acolyte, archbishop, Archbishop of, archdeacon, beadle, beadles, beneficiaries, beneficiary, bishops, Brahmin, Brahmins, canon, canons, Cardinals, choral, clerks, confessor, confessors, Constantinople, contributory, curate, curates, cures, deacon, deacons, deans, diocesan, divines, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, elders, friar, friars, High Church, imperfectly, incumbent, incumbents, incumbent on, infidel, infidels, Lama, Monks, New class, niggardly, novice, novices, Nuns, obeah, Parsons, Pastor, pastors, patriarch, patriarchs, pilgrims, popes, preachers, prelate, prelates, presbyter, presbyters, primate, Primates, Prophets, readers, rector, rectors, reverences, reverent, rural, sacristan, scoundrel, scribes, Sellers, sexton, sheik, The Dean, The Infidels, The Novice, vicar, vicars, voodoo
«He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger»
«A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
adored, adores, adoring, consistency, divined, divines, divine being, divining, foolish, hobgoblin, hobgoblins, minds, philosophers, statesmen, The Hobgoblin
«A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
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adored, consistency, divines, hobgoblin, hobgoblins, statesmen, The Hobgoblin
«I am you; you are ME.? You are the waves; I am the ocean.? Know this and be free, be divine.»
«It is only when you have both divine grace and human endeavor that you can experience bliss, just as you can enjoy the breeze of a fan only when you have both a fan and the electrical energy to operate it.»
Author: Sri Sathya Sai Baba
(Spiritual leader)
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As You, bliss, both, breeze, breezes, Divine, divined, divines, divine being, divine grace, divining, electrical, electrical energy, endeavor, endeavored, energy, enjoy, experience, fan, fanned, fanning, fan in, grace, human, just as, only when, operate, operate on, The Fan
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