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• To be a Ranger is to sense the sacred trust of upholding all that such a name means in this shrine of football. They must be true in their conception of what the Ibrox tradition seeks from them. No true Ranger has ever failed in the tradition set him.

  Bill Struth

  Football, Mean, Names

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• What do sad people have in common? It seems they have all built a shrine to the past and often go there and do a strange wail and worship. What is the beginning of Happiness? It is to stop being so religious like that.

  Hafez

  Religious, Past, People

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• Poor humanity, to saddle the gods with such a responsibility and throw in a vindictive temper. What griefs they hatch for themselves, what festering sores for us, what tears for our prosperity! This is not piety, this oft-repeated show of bowing a veiled head before a graven image; this bustling to every altar; this kow-towing and prostration on the ground with palms outspread before the shrines of the gods; this deluging of vow on vow. True piety lies rather in the power to contemplate the universe with a quiet mind.

  Lucretius

  Lying, Grief, Responsibility

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• The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even ignorant of the languages of the various countries through which they passed, pursue their perilous journeys into remote places, until, like the knight in the Arabian tale, they succeeded in snatching a memorial from every shrine they visited.

  James Holman

  Country, Believe, Passion

  James Holman (2009). “A Voyage Round the World: Volume I, Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832”, p.6, The Floating Press

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• Think of admitting the details of a single case of the criminal court into our thoughts, to stalk profanely through their very sanctum sanctorum for an hour, ay, for many hours! to make a very barroom of the mind's inmost apartment, as if for so long the dust of the street had occupied us,--the very street itself, with all its travel, its bustle, and filth, had passed through our thoughts' shrine! Would it not be an intellectual and moral suicide?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Suicide, Thinking, Thoughtful

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't care very much for literary shrines and hauntsI knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the windows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.

  Carolyn Wells

  Travel, Yards, Literature

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• We are committed to free access and free practice, to the members of the other two religions, to the holy shrines in Jerusalem. To the Muslims, to the Christians.

  Yitzhak Rabin

  Christian, Practice, Two

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• To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Fighting, Youth, Spirit

  George Delf, Jomo Kenyatta (1961). “Jomo Kenyatta: Towards the Truth about "The Light of Kenya"”, London : Gollancz

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• The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Wine, Mountain, Cups

  John Greenleaf Whittier, “The Worship Of Nature”

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• Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the empty-headed shrine of scientific materialism?

  Rob Brezsny

  Bored, Sentimental, Worship

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• The journey to sacred places is the most common way that people travel in India. They are always going on pilgrimages to sacred places. They are always undertaking spiritual journeys to visit the great shrines in the Himalayan tier of pilgrimage places; these places are called tirthas, a word that means "crossing place," a place where you can cross the river to the far shore but also cross over into another dimension of life. Cross over to heaven, in one sense it's used.

  Diana L. Eck

  Spiritual, Mean, Journey

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The love of woman is a precious treasure. Tenderness has no deeper source, devotion no purer shrine, sacrifice no more saintlike abnegation.

  Germain-Francois Poullain de Saint-Foix

  Sacrifice, Treasure, Purity

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• Death sanctifies. It's solemn enough to make its own shrine, where it happens.

  Charlotte Armstrong

  Enough, Solemn, Happens

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• Heaven is the day of which grace is the dawn; the rich, ripe fruit of which grace is the lovely flower; the inner shrine of that most glorious temple to which grace forms the approach and outer court.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Heaven, Grace

  Thomas Guthrie (1859). “Christ and the inheritance of the saints”, p.22

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• Every man worships the dollar, and is down before his shrine from morning to night... Other men, the world over, worship regularly at the shrine with matins and vespers, nones and complines, and whatever other daily services may be known to the religious houses; but the New Yorker is always on his knees.

  Anthony Trollope

  Religious, Morning, Night

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.291

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• Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer.

  George Eliot

  Love, Men, Soul

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.4145, Delphi Classics

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• Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips chained ears entrance Than hers that move, true to its striking hours; No hands so white e'er decked the warrior's lance, As those which tend its lamp as darkness lours; And never since dear Christ expired for man, Had holy shrine so fair a sacristan.

  Alfred Austin

  Flower, Moving, Warrior

  Alfred Austin (1873). “Madonna's child [a poem].”, p.4

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• The value of dreams, like ... divinations, is not that they give a specific answer, but that they open up new areas of psychic reality, shake us out of our customary ruts, and throw light on a new segment of our lives. Thus the sayings of the shrine, like dreams, were not to be received passively; the recipients had to "live" themselves into the message.

  Rollo May

  Dream, Reality, Light

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.106, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Twisting through the thorn-thick underbrush, scratched and exhausted, one turns suddenly to find an unexpected waterfall, not half a mile from the nearest road, a spot so hard to reach that no one comes a hiding place, a shrine for dragonflies and nesting jays, a sign that there is still one piece of property that won't be owned.

  Dana Gioia

  Dragonflies, Pieces, Half

  Dana Gioia (2016). “99 Poems: New & Selected”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Suddenly here was this somewhat roly-poly elderly, northern Italian peasant on the chair of Saint Peter and he was accessible - and he made himself accessible, he went to prisons, he went to hospitals, he went to the shrine of Loreto.

  George Weigel

  Italian, Elderly, Saint

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.

  Lewis Mumford

  Mountain, Architecture, Lofty

  1953 Of Frank Lloyd Wright.'A Phoenix Too Infrequent', in the NewYorker, 28 Nov.

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• How can we expect our students to become bold and fearless in thought and action if we encase them in sentimental shrines feigning a culture which has long since disappeared?

  Walter Gropius

  Long, Fearless, Culture

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• Art is a profession, not a shrine.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Art, Art Is, Profession

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1962). “A View of My Own: Essays on Literature and Society”

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• The mystical nature of American consumption accounts for its joylessness. We spend a great deal of time in stores, but if we don't seem to take much pleasure in our buying, it's because we're engaged in the acts of sacrifice and self-definition. Abashed in the presence of expensive merchandise, we recognize ourselves . . . as suppliants admitted to a shrine.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Sacrifice, Self, Definitions

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• It is a zealot's faith that blasts the shrines of the false god, but builds no temple to the true.

  Sydney Thompson Dobell

  Temples, Blast, Zeal

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