S Quotes
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“Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.”
Source: Meditations
“Such as every man is inwardly so he judgeth outwardly.”
Source: The Imitation of Christ
“Such as I am, I am a precious gift.”
“Such as it is, the press has become the greatest power within the Western World, more powerful than the legislature, the executive and judiciary. One would like to ask; by whom has it been elected and to whom is it responsible?”
“Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.”
Source: The Lord's Supper
“such as men can only achieve by long years of practice in old-fashioned and decaying administrations in which discretion has long degenerated into insensibility and obedience into cowardice.”
Source: The Bridge on the Drina
“Such as ne'er saw swans May think crows beautiful.”
Source: Dramatic Works: A new way to pay old debts. The great Duke of Florence. The unnatural combat. The bashful lover
“Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.”
“Such as the love is, such is the wisdom, consequently such is the man (n. 368)
(Divine Love and Wisdom, 1763)”
“Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out.”
“Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.”
“Such as we are made of, such we be.”
Source: The works of William Shakespeare
“Such beautiful minds. Yet such silence and darkness around them.”
Source: The Abandoned Paradise: Unraveling the beauty of untouched thoughts and dreams
“Such beautiful scarlet hair....Why don't we call you 'Erza Scarlet'? It's the color of your hair, that way, I won't forget it!" -Jellal Fernandes”
“Such beautiful strength lives in uncompromising humility.”
“such beauty lies in broken stories”
“Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him, a gift crafted deliberately, compassionately, for him and Phil. Joyful and grateful in the midst of slow dying, the two men bathed in that day until sunset brought is, and their time in the doldrums, to an end.”
Source: Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption
“Such bees! Bilbo had never seen anything like them. "If one were to sting me," He thought "I should swell up as big as I am!”
“Such being the happiness of the times, that you may think as you wish, and speak as you think.”
“Such being the nature of mental life, the business of psychology is primarily to describe in detail the various forms which attention or conation assumes upon the different levels of that life.”
“Such bickerings to recount, met often in these our writers, what more worth is it than to chronicle the wars of kites or crows flocking and fighting in the air?”
Source: Britain Under Trojan, Roman, Saxon Rule
“Such boycotts threaten academic speech and exchange, which is our solemn duty as academic institutions to protect.”
“Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still”
Source: Map: Collected and Last Poems
“Such coincidences were the rhymes that God wrote into fate, his chords of music.”
Source: Imaginary Kings
“Such command and honesty! Your figures are full of emotion, for instance, here – points at the panel – the figure of Judas on his knees, wringing his hands in self-hatred and pleading for forgiveness… Who would have thought that someone your age, a miller at that, could put so much into a figure!”
Source: Van Rijn
“Such compliments--they were thrilling but almost impossible to absorb in this quantity, at this pace. It was like she was being pelted with magnificent hail, and she wished she could save the individual stones to examine later, but they'd exist with such potency only now, in this moment.”
Source: Eligible
“Such compositions, line and color ideas, such wonders come into my mind and have stuck! - They will this time be dismissed only by being painted out.”
“Such compression of large amounts of information into a few exformation-rich macrostates with small quantities of nominal information are not only intelligent: they are very beautiful: yes, even sexy. Seing a jumble of confused data and shreds of rote learning compressed into a concise, clear message can be a real turn-on.”
Source: The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
“Such cool courtesy, Alicia!' Jean-Marc drawled with soft mockery. "Where is the Snow Queen now?'
'Marshalling her forces!' she snapped.
'Have I scattered them, cherie?' he murmured.
'No, you have not!' she said angrily. 'I just didn't expect to have to fight when I arrived here! This is a romantic weekend for me!'
"Not any more,' he drawled. "From the minute I kissed you this afternoon, it became war. Our war, Alicia. Our private war..."
-JeanMark & Alicia”
Source: Last of the Great French Lovers
“Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create our own world, if we choose.”
Source: The Promised Land
“Such crimes has superstition caused.”
“Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It 's like sending them ruffles when wanting a shirt.”
Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 1: Poetical works; Dramas; The vicar of Wakefield
“Such days of autumnal decline hold a strange mystery which adds to the gravity of all our moods.”
“Such debates [about the nature of Scripture], in my view, distract attention from the real point of what the Bible is there for. Squabbling over particular definitions of the qualities of the Bible is like a married couple squabbling over which of them loves the children more, when they should be getting on with bringing them up and setting them a good example. The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.”
“Such delicacies are relationships.”
Source: Coinman: An Untold Conspiracy
“Such deluded persons, symptomatically, dwell in dualities of dishonor and honor, misery and happiness, woman and man, good and bad, pleasure and pain, etc., thinking, "This is my wife; this is my house; I am the master of this house; I am the husband of this wife." These are the dualities of delusion. Those who are so deluded by dualities are completely foolish and therefore cannot understand the Supreme Personality of Godhead.”
Source: Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
“Such delusions of grandeur to think that a God with a hundred billion galaxies on his mind would give a tuppenny damn who you sleep with, or indeed whether you believe in him.”
“Such discoveries have led me, and other geologists, to reconsider the evidence previously derived from caves brought forward in proof of the high antiquity of Man.”
Source: The Geological Evidence of Man
“Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.”
Source: The Renaissance
“Such displays of the Australian spirit engender pride, regardless of background, religion and political persuasion. They are unifying... This spirit of leadership should be reflected in our national symbols and one appropriate way to do that is by finally making the changes needed to make Australia a republic... A country's history does not change because it takes a step forward, but its possibilities for the future do.”
“Such divine beauty
Atop rocks, red as life blood -
Landscape highlighted.”
Source: Paradise Isle
“Such do not always understand the authors whose names adorn their barren pages, and which are taken, too, from the third or the thirtieth hand. Those who trust to such false quoters will often learn how contrary this transmission is to the sense and application of the original. Every transplantation has altered the fruit of the tree; every new channel, the quality of the stream in its remove from the spring-head.”
“Such events may be disbelieved or disregarded; but the charity of a bishop, Acacius of Amida, whose name might have dignified the saintly calendar, shall not be lost in oblivion.”
Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Such ever was love's way: to rise, it stoops.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry
“Such evidence is not the only kind which produces belief; though positivism maintains that it is the only kind which ought to produce so high a degree of confidence as all minds have or can be made to have through their agreements.”
Source: The Evolutionary Philosophy of Chauncey Wright
“Such evil deeds could religion prompt.”
Source: Titi Lucreti Cari De Rerum Natura Libri Sex: Prolegomena. Text. Translation
“Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being due to the advertiser's license of self-assertiveness. Nevertheless, the fact remains that superlative generalities are weak arguments and far less convincing than a statement of facts. Much advertising copy would be improved immensely by doing away with brag and substituting actual facts about the merits of the article.”
“Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.”
“Such excess of passion is quite out of fashion”
“Such excessive preoccupation with his faults is not a truly spiritual activity but, on the contrary, a highly egoistic one.The recognition of his own faults should make a man humbler, when it is beneficial, not prouder, which the thought that he ought to have been above these faults makes him.”
Source: The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat