Engrave Quotes

• It is not length of life, but depth of life.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume VIII: Letters and Social Aims”, p.191, Harvard University Press

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• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  Natalie Clifford Barney

  Inspirational, Time, Broken Hearted

  "The Amazon of Letters". Book by George Wickes, 1976.

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• The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

  Karl Kraus

  Fire, Shells, Literature

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• We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Blessing, Trials

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• As soldiers, you will always have to cherish and live up to the three ideals of faithfulness, duty and sacrifice. Soldiers who always remain faithful to their nation, who are always prepared to sacrifice their lives, are invincible. If you, too, want to be invincible, engrave these three ideals in the innermost core of your hearts.

  Subhas Chandra Bose

  Heart, Army, Sacrifice

  Subhas Chandra Bose, Subbier Appadurai Ayer, Sisir Kumar Bose, Sugata Bose (2007). “Netaji Collected Works”

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• Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Writing, Divinity, Tablets

  "Theory as Practice (On Philosophy: To Dorothea)". Book by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel, 1997.

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• Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble

  Charles Spurgeon

  Writing, Blessing, People

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• I hear no one boast, that he hath a knowledge of the Scriptures, but that he owneth a Bible written in golden characters. And tell me then, what profiteth this? The Holy Scriptures were not given to us that we should enclose them in books, but that we should engrave them upon our hearts.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Book, Heart, Character

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• One thing is certain: The power of belief, the power of thought, will move reality in the direction of what we believe and conceive of it. If you really believe you can do something, you can. This is a fact. When you clearly envision a victorious outcome, engrave it in your heart and are firmly convinced that you will attain it, your brain makes every effort to realize the mental image you have created. And then, through your unceasing efforts, that victory is finally made a reality.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Believe, Moving, Heart

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• Gail Sheehy tells us that "the delights of self-discovery are always available." All Fools' Day is the perfect day to engrave this wisdom in our hearts.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Heart, Discovery, Self

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• Jane Francklyne, born in 1565, had lived for less than a month. She left very little behind. She was buried in the Ecton churchyard, but her father would hardly have paid a carver to engrave so small a stone. If not for the parish register, there would be no record that this Jane Francklyne had ever lived at all. History is what is written and can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by the earth.

  Jill Lepore

  Father, Records, Earth

  Jill Lepore (2013). “Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin”, p.16, Vintage

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• Believing is a daring adventure into the unseen, it is a radiant faith in the unexplored, the undiscovered, the miracles of the future. . . There is magic in the art of believing! Believe! Engrave these words of the Master in your memory: "All things are possible to those who believe." Believe! Believe in the limitless supply of God's goodness. The universe is filled with more wonders than you can imagine.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Faith, Art, Memories

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• Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

  John Scalzi

  Writing, Brain, Different

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• A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of light. Concealment avails him nothing; boasting nothing. There is confession in the glances of our eyes; in our smiles; in salutations; and the grasp of hands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Eye, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.319, Library of America

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• I'm everlastin, I can go on for days and days
  With rhyme displays that engrave deep as X-rays
  I can take a phrase that's rarely heard, FLIP IT
  Now it's a daily word

  Rakim

  Rap, Rays, Phrases

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• Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It engraves on the countenance of its servant the traces of imaginary and intellectual adventures, and even if he has outwardly existed in cloistral tranquility, it leads in the long term to overfastidiousness, over-refinement, nervous fatigue and overstimulation, such as can seldom result from a life of the most extravagant passions and pleasures.

  Thomas Mann

  Art, Passion, Adventure

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• There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your books, engrave it on the floor, whatever." Octavian read the scroll. "This says, 'Go to Alaska. Find Thanatos and free him. Come back by sundown on June twenty-fourth or die'." "Yes," Mars said. "Is that not clear?" "Well, my lord...usually prophecies are unclear. They're wrapped in riddles. They rhyme, and..." Mars casually popped another grenade off his belt. "Yes?" "The prophecy is clear!" Octavian announced. "A quest!

  Rick Riordan

  Book, Writing, Alaska

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• The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.

  Romain Rolland

  Book, Fire, Impact

  "Journey Within". Book by Romain Rolland. Chapter 2: "The Three Revelations", 1947.

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• There is no "End" to be written, neither can you, like an architect, engrave in stone the day the garden was finished. A painter can frame his picture, a composer can notate his coda, but a garden is always on the move.

  Mirabel Osler

  Moving, Garden, Stones

  Mirabel Osler (2012). “A Gentle Plea for Chaos”, p.84, A&C Black

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