„We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude.“
Origine: Address on Laying the Cornerstone of the Bunker Hill Monument (1825), p. 62
Contesto: We wish that this column, rising towards heaven among the pointed spires of so many temples dedicated to God, may contribute also to produce, in all minds, a pious feeling of dependence and gratitude. We wish, finally, that the last object to the sight of him who leaves his native shore, and the first to gladden his who revisits it, may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and the glory of his country. Let it rise! let it rise, till it meet the sun in his coming; let the earliest light of the morning gild it, and the parting day linger and play on its summit!
Daniel Webster7
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„From that point
Dependent is the heaven and nature all.“
— Dante Alighieri, libro Paradiso
Canto XXVIII, lines 41–42 (tr. Longfellow).
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Originale: (rm) Da quel punto
depende il cielo e tutta la natura.
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— Rukmini Devi Arundale Indian Bharatnatyam dancer 1904 - 1986
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— John Ruysbroeck Flemish mystic 1293 - 1381
The Spiritual Espousals (c. 1340)
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— John Arlott English sports commentator and writer 1914 - 1991
From various hymnals.
— Jerry Coyne American biologist 1949
" Didn’t you know: God’s a question, not an answer! https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2016/04/10/didnt-you-know-gods-a-question-not-an-answer/" April 10, 2016
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„There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.“
— Mignon McLaughlin American journalist 1913 - 1983
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
— Henri-Frédéric Amiel Swiss philosopher and poet 1821 - 1881
16 July 1848
Only one thing is necessary: to possess God — All the senses, all the forces of the soul and of the spirit, all the exterior resources are so many open outlets to the Divinity; so many ways of tasting and of adoring God. We should be able to detach ourselves from all that is perishable and cling absolutely to the eternal and the absolute and enjoy the all else as a loan, as a usufruct…. To worship, to comprehend, to receive, to feel, to give, to act: this our law, our duty, our happiness, our heaven.
As translated in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Journal Intime (1882), Journal entries
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Origine: Father and Child Reunion (2001), p. 236.
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— George Müller German-English clergyman 1805 - 1898
A Narrative of Some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller Written by Himself, First Part.
First Part of Narrative
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Chap. 1: "To Whom Much is Forgiven..."
The New Being (1955)
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“Conversation Between D’Alembert and Diderot”
D’Alembert’s Dream (1769)
