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• A mind dominated by positive emotions, becomes a favorable abode for the state of mind known as faith.

  Napoleon Hill

  Mind, Think And Grow Rich, Emotion

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.45, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• My soul is my guide, for my soul is of that abode. I will not speak of the earthly. I am of the unknown

  Rumi

  Soul, Speak, Guides

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• We must each always think first of Malaysia, of the national need and least of ourselves …Everyone must try to help and see that the people are one-minded, with loyalty and one aim, to make Malaysia – the land we love – a happy abode for all of us. If we all do this then we can guarantee liberty, security, prosperity and happiness for the future.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Loyalty, Thinking, Land

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• Here is a little mouth to kiss; here are two more feet to make music with their pattering about my nursery. Here is a soul to train for God, and the body in which it dwells is worth all it will cost, since it is abode of a kingly tenant. I may see less of friends, but I have gained one dearer than them all. Yes, my precious baby, you are welcome to your mothers heart, welcome to her time, her strength, her health, to her most tender cares, to her life-long prayers! Oh how rich I am, how truly, how wondrously blest!

  Elizabeth Prentiss

  Mother, Baby, Prayer

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• No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.

  Thomas Gray

  Hope, Father, Merit

  1751 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, l.125-8,'The Epitaph'.

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• Character is blazing sunshine in the soul's abode, the body.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Character, Sunshine, Soul

  Sri Chinmoy (1972). “Eternity's breath: aphorisms and essays”

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• May I strike my heart's keys clearly, and may none fail because of slack, uncertain, or fraying strings. May the tears that stream down my face make me more radiant: may my hidden weeping bloom.... How we waste our afflictions!... [T]hey're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year—; not only a season—: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Heart, Dark, Years

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• [V]ariety of climate should always go with stability of abode.... an Englishman’s house is not only his castle; it is his fairy castle. Clouds and colours of every varied dawn and eve are perpetually touching and turning it from clay to gold, or from gold to ivory. There is a line of woodland beyond a corner of my garden which is literally different on every one of the three hundred and sixty-five days. Sometimes it seems as near as a hedge, and sometimes as far as a faint and fiery evening cloud.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Garden, Weather, Ivory

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• I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to make sure that the flicker of movement we have thus managed in space stays sufficiently kindled so that the people of the 21st century can build upon and extend the human abode from Earth to the cosmos beyond.

  Paul Levinson

  Believe, Commitment, Thinking

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• Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

  John Keble

  Islands, Sight, Years

  John Keble (1858). “The Christian year, thoughts in verse for the Sundays and holydays throughout the year [by J. Keble]. [Another]”, p.9

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• ‎We are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace).

  Mother Teresa

  Jail, People, Criminals

  Source: mattersindia.com

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• But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ocean, August, Ears

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• If you are convinced of God's existence then it rests with you to seek Him, to see Him and to realize Him. Do not search for God outside of you. God can only be found within you, for His only abode is the heart.

  Meher Baba

  Heart, Realizing, Found

  "The Everything and the Nothing". Book by Meher Baba, 1963.

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• I have likewise made many 'skies' and effects - for I wish it could be said of me as Fuselli says of Rembrandt, 'he followed nature in her calmest abodes and could pluck a flower on every hedge - yet he was born to cast a steadfast eye on the bolder phenomena of nature'... We have had noble clouds & effects of light & dark & color.

  John Constable

  Flower, Eye, Dark

  John Constable (1968). “John Constable's Correspondence”

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• May all the gods whom I settled in their sacred centers ask daily of Bêl and Nâbu that my days be long and may they intercede for my welfare. ... The people of Babylon blessed my kingship, and I settled all the lands in peaceful abodes.

  Cyrus the Great

  Blessed, Land, Long

  Inscription on the Cyrus Cylinder, as translated at Livius.org, www.livius.org. 538 B.C.E..

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• It seems the height of antiquated hubris to claim that the universe carried on as it did for billions of years in order to form a comfortable abode for us. Chance and historical contingency give the world of life most of its glory and fascination. I sit here happy to be alive and sure that some reason must exist for "why me?" Or the earth might have been totally covered with water, and an octopus might now be telling its children why the eight-legged God of all things had made such a perfect world for cephalopods.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Children, Octopus, Eight

  Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.206, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Souls never die, but always on quitting one abode pass to another. All things change, nothing perishes. The soul passes hither and thither, occupying now this body, now that... As a wax is stamped with certain figures, then melted, then stamped anew with others, yet it is always the same wax. So, the Soul being always the same, yet wears at different times different forms.

  Pythagoras

  Soul, Different, Body

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• The gods and their tranquil abodes appear, which no winds disturb, nor clouds bedew with showers, nor does the white snow, hardened by frost, annoy them; the heaven, always pure, is without clouds, and smiles with pleasant light diffused.

  Lucretius

  Clouds, Light, Wind

  "De Rerum Natura". Book by Lucretius, III. 18,

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• May never glorious sun reflex his beams
  Upon the country where you make abode!
  But darkness and the gloomy shade of death
  Environ you till mischief and despair
  Drive you to break your necks or hang yourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Country, Darkness, Despair

  William Shakespeare, Charles Symmons (1843). “The Dramatic Works and Poems”, p.26

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• The Christian conceives of his abode on Earth in no more delightful colors than the Jainist sectarian. He sees in it only a time of sad trial; he also thinks that his true country is not of this world.

  Emile Durkheim

  Christian, Country, Thinking

  John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• There is no brotherhood between love and dignity,
  Nor can they share the same abode.

  Ovid

  Love, Brotherhood, Dignity

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• With wavering steps does fickle fortune stray,
  Nowhere she finds a firm and fixed abode;
  But now all smiles, and now again all frowns,
  She's constant only in inconstancy.

  Ovid

  Doe, Fickle, Wavering

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• For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Change, Time

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• Perpetual modernness is the measure of merit, in every work of art; since the author of it was not misled by anything short- livedor local, but abode by real and abiding traits.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Real, Abiding

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• By unswerving devotion to Me, a man crosses over three Gunas - I am the Abode of Brahman, Eternal and Immutable, of everlasting Dharma and Absolute Bliss.

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Men, Three, Bliss

  "Tarangini, vol. X". Book by Swami Chinmayananda, p. 40,

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