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• For to be idle is to become a stranger unto the seasons, and to step out of life’s procession that marches in majesty and proud submission towards the infinite.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Proud, Majesty

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting.

  George S. Patton

  Horse, Children, War

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• I do not like the phrase: Never cross a bridge till you come to it. The world is owned by men who cross bridges on their imaginations miles and miles in advance of the procession.

  Bruce Barton

  Men, Bridges, Imagination

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

  Ananda Coomaraswamy

  Views, Perception, Becoming

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• Life figures itself to me as a festal or funereal procession.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Life, Figures

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Procession of Life”, p.3, Booklassic

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• It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success.

  Desmond Tutu

  Godly, Faithful, May

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• A schedule broken at will becomes a mere procession of vagaries.

  Rex Stout

  Broken, Schedules, Mere

  Rex Stout (2010). “Murder by the Book”, p.194, Bantam

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• The line of traffic advancing towards the rising sun looked like a procession of the returning dead. Every one of them, solitaries in clean shirts, smoking, checking mirrors to see if their reflections were still there, wore dark glasses.

  Iain Sinclair

  Dark, Reflection, Glasses

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• I was raised on a farm in Kansas where we lived next door to my Grandma Dew, and I was her shadow. We went everywhere together - to the bank, the doctor, the Early Bird Garden Club, and to an endless procession of Church meetings.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Grandma, Garden, Kansas

  Sheri L. Dew (2001). “No Doubt about it”

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• We must shine with hope, stained glass windows that shape light into icons, glow like lanterns borne before a procession. Who can bear hope back into the world but us.

  Marge Piercy

  Glasses, Light, Icons

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• I am indebted to anyone who has ever written anything. I am indebted to the unknown carver of pictograms on a gallery of stone panels, which I encountered and stood in silence before on top of a distant odd-shaped hill in northern Kenya. For whatever reason the muses have most unexpectedly invited me to join this immense procession. I am humbled and delighted.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Silence, Kenya, Stones

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Night is here. All is at rest. My eyes close in order to see without actually understanding the dream that flees before men infinite space; and I experience the languorous sensation produced by the mournful procession of my hopes.

  Paul Gauguin

  Dream, Eye, Night

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• History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.

  Emile M. Cioran

  History, Mind, Degradation

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• God never jests with us, and will not compromise the end of nature, by permitting any inconsequence in its procession.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Knowledge, Compromise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature, addresses, and lectures”, p.29, Harvard University Press

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• One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.

  Frank Gehry

  Hero, Men, Design

  Interview with David Sheff, www.playboy.com. March 1, 2011.

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• Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.

  George William Russell

  Whiskey, Throat

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• Pictures! Pictures! Pictures! Often, before I learned, did I wonder whence came the multitudes of pictures that thronged my dreams; for they were pictures the like of which I had never seen in real wake-a-day life. They tormented my childhood, making of my dreams a procession of nightmares and a little later convincing me that I was different from my kind, a creature unnatural and accursed.

  Jack London

  Dream, Real, Childhood

  Jack London (2017). “JACK LONDON Ultimate Collection: 250+ Works in One Volume: Novels, Short Stories, Plays, Poetry, Memoirs, Essays & Articles (Illustrated): The Call of the Wild, The Sea-Wolf, White Fang, The Iron Heel, The Scarlet Plague, A Son of the Sun, Son of the Wolf, South Sea Tales, Children of the Frost, John Barleycorn, The War of the Classes…”, p.931, e-artnow

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• For a young man, sleep is a sure solvent of distress. There whirls not for him in the night any so hideous phantasmagoria as will not become, in the clarity of the next morning, a spruce procession for him to lead. Brief the vague horror of his awakening; memory sweeps back to him, and he sees nothing dreadful after all. "Why not?" is the sun's bright message to him, and "Why not indeed?" his answer.

  Max Beerbohm

  Morning, Memories, Sleep

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.40, The Floating Press

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• It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.

  H. L. Mencken

  Believe, Style, Stuff

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• Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Intuition, Logic, Moments

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.419, Library of America

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• There were many who went in huddled procession,They knew not wither,But, at any rate, success or calamityWould attend all in equality.There was one who sought a new road,He went into direful thickets,And ultimately he died thus, alone;But they said he had courage.

  Stephen Crane

  Said, New Roads, Rate

  Stephen Crane (1984). “Prose and Poetry”, p.1304, Library of America

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• Christmas turns things tail-end foremost. The day and the spirit of Christmas rearrange the world parade. As the world arranges it, usually there come first in importance -- leading the parade with a big blare of a band -- the Big Shots. Frequently they are also the Stuffed Shirts. That's the first of the parade. Then at the tail end, as of little importance, trudge the weary, the poor, the lame, the halt, and the blind. But in the Christmas spirit, the procession is turned around. Those at the tail end are put first in the arrangement of the Child of Christmas.

  Bill Vaughan

  Children, Tails, Band

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• God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions.

  Louie Giglio

  Funeral

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• In what pagan nation was Moloch ever propitiated by such an unbroken and swift-moving procession of victims as are offered to this Moloch of Christendom, intemperance.

  Horace Mann

  Moving, Unbroken, Pagan

  Horace Mann (1852). “Two Lectures on Intemperance: The effects of intemperance on the poor and ignorant. The effects of intemperance on the rich and educated. I.. II.”, p.74

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• [On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

  Florence Nightingale

  Fancy, Conversation, Companion

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