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Source: The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...

“My divine sign indicates the future to me.”

Divine Divinity

Author:Socrates

“His epitaph: Who, by vigor of mind almost divine, the motions and figures of the planets, the paths of comets, and the tides of the seas first demonstrated.”

Mind Firsts Path Sea Figures Divine Planets Mathematical Divinity Tides Vigor Epitaph Comets

Author:Isaac Newton

“How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!”

Source: The Poetical Works of Robert Southey: With a Memoir ...

“If one could divine the nature of the economic forces in the world, one could foretell the future.”

Ifs World Force Nature Economic Divine Divinity

Author:Robert Heilbroner

“Daughters of God know that it is the nurturing nature of women that can bring everlasting blessings, and they live to cultivate this divine attribute.”

Knows Divine Blessing Daughter Divinity Attributes Everlasting God Knows Nurturing Daughter Of God

Author:Margaret D. Nadauld

“Divine nature gave us fields, human skill built our cities. -Divina natura dedit agros, ars humana aedificavit urbes”

Humans Cities Fields Divine Skills Built Divinity Divine Nature

Author:Marcus Terentius Varro

“As surgeons keep their instruments and knives always at hand for cases requiring immediate treatment, so shouldst thou have thy thoughts ready to understand things divine and human, remembering in thy every act, even the smallest, how close is the bond that unites the two.”

Humans Two Hands Remember Cases Divine Ready Instruments Divinity Treatment Knives Smallest Surgeons

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“Remember that Divinity is the true self of Man. It cannot be sold for gold; neither can it be heaped up as are the riches of the world today. The rich man has cast off his Divinity, and has clung to his gold. And the young today have forsaken their Divinity and pursue self-indulgence and pleasure.”

Men World Self Today Remember Young Pleasure Rich Gold Casts Riches Pursue Divinity True Self Indulgence World Today Rich Man Forsaken Self Indulgence

Author:Khalil Gibran

“The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace.”

Causes Secret Steps Effects Events Divine Divinity Transition Foresight Sagacity

Book:Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality

Source: Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments: Tending to Amuse the Fancy, and Inculcate Morality

“For ever singing as they shine, The hand that made us is divine.”

Made Hands Divine Singing Shining Divinity

Author:Joseph Addison

“Sometime let gorgeous Tragedy In sceptred pall come sweeping by, Presenting Thebes, or Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine.”

Lines Divine Letting Go Tragedy Tales Divinity Gorgeous Presenting Sweeping

Book:The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton

Source: The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton

“Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd In vision beatific.”

Looks Spirit Heaven Enjoy Vision Divine Holy Gold Riches Divinity Bent Admiring Pavement

Author:John Milton

“Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?”

Earth Divine Breathe Mortals Divinity Mixtures Mould Enchanting

Author:John Milton

“To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.”

Wise Divine Glorious Rising Divinity Resentment Manly

Author:Isaac Watts

“The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.”

Men Humility Divine Worship Privilege Divinity Bows Adoration

Author:Hosea Ballou