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• Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Peace

  Orthodoxy (1908) ch. 7

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• A pillow for thee will I bring,Stuffed with down of angel's wing.

  Richard Crashaw

  Angel, Wings, Thee

  Richard Crashaw (1858). “The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Canon of Loretto”, p.15

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• Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

  Fanny Crosby

  Death, Angel, Grieving

  Fanny Crosby (2008). “Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography”, p.36, Hendrickson Publishers

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  The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird waits in the egg, and in the highest vision of the soul a waking angel stirs. Dreams are the seedlings of realities.

  James Allen

  Inspirational, Dream, Sleep

  James Allen (1923). “As a Man Thinketh”, p.22, New Line Publishing

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• He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Sympathy, Condolences, Losing A Loved One

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “Hyperion: A Romance”, p.233

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• Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Song, Angel, Thinking

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “Poetical Works”, p.146

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• Do ye not comprehend that we are worms born to bring forth the angelic butterfly that flieth unto judgment without screen?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Angel, Judgment

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy. Longfellow's Translation.”, p.522, Dante Alighieri

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• And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice.

  Rumi

  Choices, Desire, Devil

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.4, Shambhala Publications

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• In spite of her cute little angelic face and pink sneakers, Brianna is actually a baby Tyrannosaurus rex. On STEROIDS!

  Rachel Renée Russell

  Cute, Baby, Sneakers

  Rachel Renée Russell (2011). “The Dork Diaries Collection: Dork Diaries; Dork Diaries 2; Dork Diaries 3”, p.542, Simon and Schuster

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• Black hair, angelic face, and devil eyes.

  Ilona Andrews

  Eye, Hair, Black

  Ilona Andrews (2011). “Magic Slays”, p.90, Penguin

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• When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

  Victor Hugo

  Destiny, Wings, Two

  Victor Hugo (2016). “Les Misérables”, p.1098, My Ebook Publishing House

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• He looked up at me with angelic eyes. "Doing what?" "You know what. You're luring me in. You know I can't resist-

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Knows, I Can

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.17, Penguin

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• Perceive ye not that we are worms, designed To form the angelic butterfly, that goes To judgment, leaving all defence behind? Why doth your mind take such exalted pose, Since ye, disabled, are as insects, mean As worm which never transformation knows?

  Dante Alighieri

  Butterfly, Mean, Leaving

  Dante Alighieri, Charles Hall Grandgent (1947). “The Portable Dante: The Divine Comedy, Complete”

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• A perfect woman, nobly planned, To warn, to comfort, and command; And yet a Spirit still, and bright With something of angelic light

  William Wordsworth

  Angel, Light, Perfect

  'She was a phantom of delight' (1807)

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• Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.

  Aberjhani

  Shadow, Rebirth, Splendid

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams”, p.82, Lulu.com

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• The mother...swinging the children by pulling on a length of string, while at the same time she kept and eye on them with that protective watchfulness, half animal, half angelic, which is the quality of motherhood.

  Victor Hugo

  Mother, Children, Eye

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• The three Divine are in this hierarchy, First the Dominions, and the Virtues next;
  And the third order is that of the Powers. The in the dances twain penultimate
  The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The last is wholly of angelic sports.
  These orders upward all of them are gazing,
  And downward so prevail, that unto God
  They all attracted are and all attract.

  Dante Alighieri

  Sports, Angel, Order

  Dante Alighieri (2016). “The Divine Comedy”, p.410, Tyché

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• The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.

  Chris Bohjalian

  Prayer, Recovery, Angel

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• Audrey had an angelic quality about her. She didn't act like she was better than everyone, she just had a presence, an energy, a sort of light coming from within her that was overwhelming.

  Kevyn Aucoin

  Light, Quality, Energy

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• I'm brilliant as well as skilled," he said modestly. "It's a great burden, all of that on top of my angelic good looks. But I try to soldier on as best I can.

  Jim Butcher

  Soldier, Trying, Looks

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.383, Penguin

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• Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric

  Charlaine Harris

  Evil, Vision, Wicked

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• A burst of harmony so brilliant that it almost overwhelmed them surrounded Meg, the cherubim, Calvin, and Mr. Jenkins. But after a moment of breathlessness, Meg was able to open herself to the song of the farae, these strange creatures who were Deepened, rooted, yet never seperated from each other, no matter how great the distance. We are the song of the universe. We sing with the angelic host. We are musicians. The farae and the stars are the singers. Our song orders the rhythm of creation.

  Madeleine L'Engle

  Song, Stars, Distance

  Madeleine L'Engle (2013). “A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy”, p.253, Macmillan

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• By the way, I haven't heard an 'I'm sorry' from you yet." My sense of grievance had overwhelmed my sense of self-preservation. I am sorry that the maenad picked on you." I glared at him. "Not enough," I said. I was trying hard to hang on to this conversation. Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me." That's more like it.

  Charlaine Harris

  Sorry, Self, Evil

  Charlaine Harris (2003). “Dead in Dixie”

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• Myself, and all the Angelic Host, that stand in the sight of God enthroned, our happy state hold, as you yours, while our obedience hold. On other surety none: freely we serve, because we freely love.

  John Milton

  Angel, Sight, Host

  John Milton, Alastair Fowler (2007). “Paradise Lost”, p.315, Pearson Education

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• The poor man shuddered, overflowed with an angelic joy; he declared in his transport that this would last through life; he said to himself that he really had not suffered enough to deserve such radiant happiness, and he thanked God, in the depths of his soul, for having permitted that he, a miserable man, should be so loved by this innocent being.

  Victor Hugo

  Gratitude, Men, Joy

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