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• Know ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime!

  Lord Byron

  Love, Turtles, Land

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.787, Delphi Classics

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• Our Lord's miracles were all essential parts of His one consistent life. They were wrought as evidences not only of His power, but of His mercy. They were throughout moral in their character, and spiritual in the ends contemplated by them. They were in fact embodiments of His whole character; exemplars of His whole teaching, emblems of His whole mission.

  James McCosh

  Spiritual, Teaching, Character

  James McCosh (1875). “Christianity and Positivism: A Series of Lectures to the Times on Natural Theology and Apologetics, Delivered in New York, Jan. 16 to March 20, 1871, on the "Ely Foundation" of the Union Theological Seminary”, p.290

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• Rose of the desert! thou art to me
  An emblem of stainless purity,--
  Of those who, keeping their garments white,
  Walk on through life with steps aright.

  David Macbeth Moir

  Art, White, Rose

  David Macbeth Moir (1852). “The Poetical Works of David Macbeth Moir”, p.146

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• The willingness to turn to the Savior, the opportunity of going to sacrament service on a Sunday, and really participating in the ordinance of the sacrament... listening to the prayers, partaking of those sacred emblems. Those are opportunities that really help us to come within the ambit of the Savior's Atonement.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Prayer, Sunday, Opportunity

  Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org

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• Thus, at long last, as a visible emblem of unity was daily growing in the new Palace of Justice then being erected in the Strand, half way between the historic site of Westminster the historic centre of the commercial capital of the world, there began to grow up, in the minds of reformers, the vision of a great and united Supreme Court of Justice, with uniform principles, uniform law, and uniform procedure.

  Edward Jenks

  Growing Up, Law, Justice

  "A Short History Of The English Law". Book by Edward Jenks, (First Edition), Chapter XIX, Modern Civil Procedure, p. 364, 1912.

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• Virtue knowing no base repulse, shines with untarnished honour; nor does she assume or resign her emblems of honour by the will of some popular breeze.
  [Lat., Virtus repulse nescia sordidae,
  Intaminatis fulget honoribus;
  Nec sumit aut ponit secures
  Arbitrio popularis aurae.]

  Horace

  Knowing, Shining, Doe

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• United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.

  Thomas Campbell

  Stars, Mean, Two

  Thomas Campbell, J. Logie Robertson (1884). “The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell”, p.340, Ardent Media

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• We adorn graves with flowers and redolent plants, just emblems of the life of man, which has been compared in the Holy Scriptures to those fading beauties whose roots, being buried in dishonor, rise again in glory.

  John Evelyn

  Flower, Men, Roots

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• The discovery of the Square was a great event to the primitive mystics of the Nile. Very early it became an emblem of truth, justice, and righteousness, and it remains to this day through unaccountable ages have passed.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Squares, Discovery, Justice

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• The dream on the pillow,
  That flits with the day,
  The leaf of the willow
  A breath wears away;
  The dust on the blossom,
  The spray on the sea;
  Ay,--ask thine own bosom--
  Are emblems of thee.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Dream, Dust, Sea

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• The emblem of equal rights. It means free hands, free lips, self- government, and the sovereignty of the individual.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Mean, Rights, Government

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3250, Library of Alexandria

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• It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops stroking you. Big business gives you a good stroke. And it's one big, transcontinental, cross-country, red, white and blue stroke job... Do you know what the national emblem for this country ought to be? Forget that bald eagle. The national emblem of this country ought to be Uncle Sam standing naked at attention saluting, and seated on a chair next to him, the Statue of Liberty jerking him off. That would be a good symbol for the United Strokes of America.

  George Carlin

  Country, Uncles, Jobs

  "George Carlin... It's Bad for Ya!", www.imdb.com. 2008.

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• The tie which links mother and child is of such pure and immaculate strength as to be never violated, except by those whose feelings are withered by vitiated society. Holy, simple, and beautiful in its construction, it is the emblem of all we can imagine of fidelity and truth.

  Washington Irving

  Beautiful, Mother, Children

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• Maternal love! thou word that sums all bliss,
  Gives and receives all bliss,--
  fullest when most
  Thou givest! spring-head of all felicity,
  Deepest when most is drawn! emblem of God!
  O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink!

  Robert Pollok

  Spring, Numbers, Giving

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber, Robert Pollok (1831). “The poetical works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok”

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• Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

  John Milton

  Men, Rose, Bird

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.698-705.

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• Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Then, when the gloaming comes, Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! Emblem of happiness, Blest is thy dwelling-place O, to abide in the desert with thee!

  James Hogg

  Sweet, Love Is, Dwelling Place

  James Hogg (1832). “Songs”, p.16

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• In mockery I have set
  A powerful emblem up,
  And sing it rhyme upon rhyme
  In mockery of a time
  Half dead at the top.

  William Butler Yeats

  Powerful, Symbolism, Towers

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.241, Simon and Schuster

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• The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

  Deborah Tall

  Powerful, Dwelling, Choices

  Deborah Tall (2016). “From Where We Stand: Recovering a Sense of Place”, p.77, Syracuse University Press

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• My parents took an interest in nothing, at home no books, no records. My mother and my father are the emblem of indifference, dryness and bad taste. My father is also terribly stingy, in life as well as in feelings: I have never seen him filling up the bathtub.

  Vincent Gallo

  Mother, Father, Book

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Coincidence was a concept he did not entirely trust. As someone who had spent his life exploring the hidden interconnectivity of disparate emblems and ideologies, Langdon viewed the world as a web of profoundly intertwined histories and events. The connections may be invisible, he often preached to his symbology classes at Harvard, but they are always there, buried just beneath the surface.

  Dan Brown

  Class, Events, Connections

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Da Vinci Code: (Robert Langdon Book 2)”, p.21, Random House

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• I'll burn myself, or I'll cut myself. For a burn or a cut might be shown, might be nursed, might scar or heal, would be a miserable kind of emblem; would anyway be there, on the surface of her body, rather than corroding it from within. Now the thought came to her again, that she might scar herself in some way. It came, like the solution to a problem: I won't be doing it like some hysterical girl. I won't be hoping she'll come catch me at it. It won't be like lying on the sitting-room floor. I'll be doing it for myself, as a secret.

  Sarah Waters

  Girl, Lying, Cutting

  Sarah Waters (2011). “The Night Watch”, p.114, Hachette UK

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• I think the important thing to understand first and foremost about Michael Jackson is that he was the international emblem of the African American blues spiritual impulse that goes back through slavery - Jim Crow, Jane Crow, up to the present moment, through a Louis Armstrong, through a Ma Rainey, through a Bessie Smith, all the way to John Coltrane, Aretha Franklin and Nina Simone.

  Cornel West

  Spiritual, Thinking, African American

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.

  Milan Kundera

  Hurt, Book, Men

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• At the same time as woman was becoming the showcase for wealth and caste, while men were slipping into relative anonymity and "handsome is as handsome does," she was emerging as the central emblem of western art.

  Germaine Greer

  Art, Men, Doe

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• I longed that those who, I have reason to think, owe me ill will, might be eternally happy. It seemed refreshing to think of meeting them in heaven, how much soever they had injured me on earth: had no disposition to insist upon any confession from them, in order to reconciliation, and the exercise of love and kindness to them. Oh! it is an emblem of heaven itself, to love all the world with a love of kindness, forgiveness, and benevolence.

  David Brainerd

  Kindness, Exercise, Thinking

  David Brainerd, Ebenezer Pemberton (1765). “An Account of the Life of the Late Reverend Mr. David Brainerd: Minister of the Gospel, Missionary to the Indians, from the Honourable Society in Scotland, for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, and Pastor of a Church of Christian Indians in New Jersey. Who Died at Northampton in New-England, October 9, 1747, in the 30th Year of His Age. Chiefly Taken from His Own Diary, and Other Private Writings, Written for His Own Use; and Now Published”, p.103

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