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“Systems of religious error have been adopted in times of ignorance. It has been the interest of tyrannical kings, popes, and prelates to maintain these errors. When the clouds of ignorance began to vanish and the people grew more enlightened, there was no other way to keep them in error but to prohibit their altering their religious opinions by severe persecuting laws. In this way persecution became general throughout Europe.”

“Now let us thank th' eternal power, convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction: That oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days.”

Trying Heaven Hours Virtue Eternal Clouds Convinced Our Future Affliction Wraps

Author:John Brown

“My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.”

Children Long Eye Father Memories Behinds Cases Shadow Winter Clouds Woods Passing Passings My Children Friendly Pairs Brushes Lurking Unfriendly Memory Of My Father

Book:Witness

Source: Witness

“I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.”

Mean Bits Black Fit Shoes Clouds Diamond Shut Up Embarrassed Clip Black Clouds

Author:Olivia Colman

“No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.”

Writing Firsts Lasts Purpose Seeing Clouds Steady Good Writing Blur Lucidity Vagueness

Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“You say we'll soar like two birds through the clouds, but soon you'll cage me on your shelf. I'll never learn to be just me, first by myself.”

Firsts Two Relationship Bird Clouds Shelves Soar Cages Two Birds

Author:Carly Simon

“Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.”

Eye Night Flower Blue Clouds China Violet Haze Starry Night

Author:Don McLean

“A woodpecker's drilling Echoes To the mountain clouds.”

Nature Mountain Clouds Echoes Drilling Woodpeckers

Author:Dakotsu Iida

“Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars-and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful.”

Ifs Looks Whole Eye Able Stars Nature Existence Tree Bird Clouds Joyful Inspirational Nature Simply Happy

Author:Rajneesh

“Was a sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. Not a negative word was heard.”

Inspirational Heard Sky Negative Clouds Sunny Sunny Day Negative Words

Book:Lyrics 1964 - 2011

Source: Lyrics 1964 - 2011

“Anaximenes ... also says that the underlying nature is one and infinite ... but not undefined as Anaximander said but definite, for he identifies it as air; and it differs in its substantial nature by rarity and density. Being made finer it becomes fire; being made thicker it becomes wind, then cloud, then (when thickened still more) water, then earth, then stones; and the rest come into being from these.”

Made Said Stills Matter Earth Science Water Fire Air Wind Stones Infinite Clouds Definite Density Rarity Undefined

Author:Theophrastus

“Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.”

Long I Can Black Family Gun Clouds Mama Black Clouds

Book:The Lyrics: 1961-2012

Source: The Lyrics: 1961-2012

“Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.”

Way Poetry Air Hair Angel Flow Clouds Ice Bows Cream Ice Cream Feathers Castles Canyons Castles In The Air

Author:Joni Mitchell

“If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper. The cloud is essential for the paper to exist. If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either. So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are.”

Ifs Grows Tree Poet Essentials Paper Rain Clouds Sheets Floating Interdependence Interbeing

Book:The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries

Source: The Other Shore: A New Translation of the Heart Sutra with Commentaries

“Heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just beyond the fear. No, heaven's not beyond the clouds, it's just for us to find it here.”

Philosophy Heaven Clouds

Author:Garth Brooks

“If only I could leave everything as it is, without moving a single star or a single cloud. Oh, if only I could!”

Ifs Moving Stars Clouds Hmmm

Author:Antonio Porchia

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