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• A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

  Victor Hugo

  Beautiful, Heaven, New Life

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• I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates.

  T. S. Eliot

  Soul, Housemaids, Areas

  'Morning at the Window' (1917)

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• Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Depth, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2409, Delphi Classics

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• Close to the Gates a spacious Garden lies, From the Storms defended and inclement Skies; Four Acres was the allotted Space of Ground, Fenc'd with a green Enclosure all around. Tall thriving Trees confessed the fruitful Mold: The reddening Apple ripens here to Gold, Here the blue Fig with luscious Juice overflows, With deeper Red the full Pomegranate glows, The Branch here bends beneath the weighty Pear, And verdant Olives flourish round the Year.

  Homer

  Lying, Garden, Blue

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• When you have overcome one temptation, you must be ready to enter the lists with another. As distrust, in some sense, is the mother of safety, so security is the gate of danger.

  Thomas Brooks

  Mother, Safety, Temptation

  Thomas Brooks (1810). “Precious Remedies Against Satan's Devices: Being a Companion for Christians of All Denominations”, p.233

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• If the colleges were better, if they had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts which become talents, - if they could cause that a mind not profound should become profound, - we should all rush to their gates: instead of contriving inducements to draw students, you would need to set police at the gates to keep order in the in-rushing multitude.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  College, Order, Rushing

  "The Celebration of Intellect". An Address Delivered Before the Students of Tufts College, quod.lib.umich.edu. July 10, 1861.

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• Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

  Peter James

  Bridges, Worry, Golden

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• On the king's gate the moss grew gray;The king came not. They called him deadAnd made his eldest son one daySlave in his father's stead.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Kings, Father, Son

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.61

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• At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.

  Edmund Spenser

  Heaven, Aurora, Golden

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• Once one has rejected faith, it will become impossible for him to enter the gates of Heaven.

  SebastiAn

  Heaven, Impossible, Rejected

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• It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory.

  George Eliot

  Struggle, Love Is, Iron

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.1166, Wordsworth Editions

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• Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Unjust, World

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• Psychedelics are not a substitute for faith. They are a door to authentic faith, born of encountering directly the sacred dimension of everyday experience. This is not the only gate to that discovery, but it is the most ancient and universal, and potentially the most accessible to the majority of the human race.

  Rick Doblin

  Race, Discovery, Doors

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• Love is the key to felicity, nor is there a heaven to any who love not. We enter Paradise through its gates only.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Love, Keys, Heaven

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• Eeyore religion says that the earth isn't worth saving, anyway, and that when it comes to an end, the Faithful will be transported instantly to heaven. No problem. We'd like to see them explain things to Saint Peter at the Gate, when he asks them what they did with the world that God entrusted to them. That might get a bit sticky.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Heaven, Faithful, Earth

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• It depends on education--that holder of the keys which the Almighty hath put into our hands--to open the gates which lead to virtue or to vice, to happiness or misery.

  Philip Sidney

  Education, Keys, Hands

  Sir Philip Sidney, Jane Porter (1807). “Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks”, p.178

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• Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Heart, Character, Men

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons preached in Manchester”, p.76

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• I'm so devoted to my music and becoming the best artist I can be. I don't want to devote too much time to anything else before I say I've conquered that. I just wanna become bigger and I'm never satisfied with just what I am today, I just always want to be bigger. If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates. That's the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.

  Fabolous

  Artist, Becoming The Best, Iron

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Order, Rocks

  "Our Church, Her Children and Institutions", Volume 1, by Henry Coyle, Angel Guardian Press, Boston, (p. 98), 1908.

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• Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

  Miroslav Volf

  Helping, Good Things, Substitutes

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• Even if heaven were real, and measured as Revelation says, so many cubits this wayand that, how gimcrack a place it would be, crammed with its pavements of gold, its gates of pearl and topaz, like a gigantic chunkof costume jewelry.

  Margaret Laurence

  Real, Heaven, Gold

  1964 The Stone Angel, ch.4.

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• The moment when you take your first step through the gates of hell, the only thing you will hear is all of creation standing to its feet and applauding and praising God because God has rid the earth of you. That's how not good you are.

  Paul Washer

  Feet, Earth, Firsts

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• There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground

  David Abram

  Fall, Grief, Eye

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• Sometimes you have to suffer a little bit in your youth to motivate yourself to succeed in later life. If Bill Gates had got laid in high school, do you think there'd be a Microsoft?

  Greg Giraldo

  Funny, School, Thinking

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• Thou warden of the western gate, above Manhattan Bay, The fogs of doubt that hid thy face are driven clean away: Thine eyes at last look far and clear, thou liftest high thy hand To spread the light of liberty world-wide for every land.

  Henry Van Dyke

  Eye, Light, Fog

  Henry Van Dyke (1920). “The Poems of Henry Van Dyke”

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