All Things Quotes - Page 29

• How glad I am to be able to roam in the wood and thicket, among trees and flowers and rocks ... in the country, every tree seems to speak to me, saying, "Holy! Holy", in the woods, there is enchantment which expresses all things.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Faith, Country, Flower

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• Death eats up all things, both the young lamb and old sheep; and I have heard our parson say, death values a prince no more than a clown.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Death, Sheep, Dying

  "Don Quixote".

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• All things are literally better, lovelier, and more beloved for the imperfections which have been divinely appointed, that the law of human life may be effort, and the law of human judgment, mercy.

  John Ruskin

  Life, Mistake, Errors

  John Ruskin (1867). “The Stones of Venice”, p.171

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• Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Freedom, Lying, Mean

  D. H. Lawrence (1966). “Selected Poems of D.h. Lawrence”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things.

  George Santayana

  Substance, Causes, Opinion

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2014). “The Life of Reason Or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Religion, Volume VII, Book Three”, p.305, MIT Press

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• This perfected body can be compared to a mirror, and the human spirit to the sun. Nevertheless, if the mirror breaks, the bounty of the sun continues; and if the mirror is destroyed or ceases to exist, no harm will happen to the bounty of the sun, which is everlasting. This spirit has the power of discovery; it encompasses all things.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Book, Mirrors, Discovery

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• Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Men, Speech

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.202, Penguin

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• Enoch predicted that "the demons and the spirits of the angelic apostates would turn into idolatry all the elements, all the adornment of the universe, and all things contained in the heaven, the sea, and the earth, that they might be consecrated as God in opposition to God." All things, therefore, does human error worship, except the Founder of all himself. The images of those things are idols; the consecration of the images is idolatry.

  Tertullian

  Religious, Errors, Idols

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• Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which above all things should be avoided, and in many instances would compel men to a mode of Worship which they do not profess.

  George Washington

  Religious, Army, Men

  George Washington, John Carey (1795). “Official Letters to the Honorable American Congress,: Written, During the War Between the United Colonies and Great Britain, by His Excellency, George Washington, Commander in Chief of the Continental Forces, Now President of the United States”, p.93

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• The comic spirit masquerades in all things we say and do. We are each a clown and do not need to put on a white face.

  James Hillman

  Fun, Play, White

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• All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

  Og Mandino

  Life, Hope, Sadness

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• Let nothing perturb you, nothing frighten you. All things pass. God does not change. Patience achieves everything.

  Mother Teresa

  Fear, Anger, Doe

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• The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.

  Esther Hicks

  Destiny, Joy, Want

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• No two on earth in all things can agree. All have some daring singularity.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Agreement, Two

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• Males do not represent two discrete populations, heterosexual and homosexual. The world is not to be divided into sheeps and goats. Not all things are black nor all things white.

  Alfred Kinsey

  Two, White, Black

  Sexual Behavior in the Human Male ch. 21 (1948)

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• Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish.

  Confucius

  Order, Perfection, Heaven

  Confucius (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Confucius - Four Books and Five Classics of Confucianism (Illustrated)”, p.137, Delphi Classics

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• Experience seems to convince us that only fools trust, that only fools believe and accept all things. If this is true, then love is most foolish. For if it is not founded on trust, belief and acceptance, it's not love.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Believe, Acceptance

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• To start from the self and try to understand all things is delusion. To let the self be awakened by all things is enlightenment.

  Dogen

  Spiritual, Self, Enlightenment

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• In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

  Anne Baxter

  Latin, Unity, Liberty

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• Be truly whole, and all things will return to you.

  Laozi

  Return, Awareness, Whole

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• You are the harmony within which all things move. They are just illusion.

  Mooji

  Moving, Illusion, Awareness

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• Man is the measure of all things.

  Protagoras

  Philosophical, Men, Greek

  Quoted in Plato, Theaetetus

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• That consciousness is everything and that all things begin with a thought. That we are responsible for our own fate, we reap what we sow, we get what we give, we pull in what we put out.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Fate, Giving, Consciousness

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• According to the true Indian view, our consciousness of the world, merely as the sum total of things that exist, and as governed by laws, is imperfect. But it is perfect when our consciousness realizes all things as spiritually one with it, and there

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspiration, Views, Law

  Rabindranath Tagore (2004). “Tagore”, p.29, SkyLight Paths Publishing

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• When you know God as peace within, then you will realize Him as peace existing in the universal harmony of all things without.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Inspiration, Realizing, Harmony

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