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“I was standing on the highest mountain of them all, and round about beneath me was the whole hoop of the world. And while I stood there I saw more than I can tell and I understood more than I saw; for I was seeing in a sacred manner the shapes of all things in the spirit, and the shape of all shapes as they must live together like one being. And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people was one of many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all children of one mother and one father. And I saw that it was holy.”

“He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is. O holy tavern! O miraculous tavern! - holy, because no carking cares are there, nor weariness, nor pain; and miraculous, because of the spits, which themselves turn round and round!”

Knows Care Pain Turns Holy Rounds Paradise Miraculous Spit Weariness Inns Taverns

Author:Pietro Aretino

“Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.”

Thinking Wells I Can Soul Feelings Loneliness Holy Rounds Your Soul Our Family

Book:Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)

Source: Leonard Cohen Anthology (Songbook)

“As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose.”

Ifs Spirit Groups Childhood Holy Rose Drinking Rounds Bees Repose Moths Gnats Vapour

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“When speech is given to a soul holy and true, time, and its dome of ages, becomes as a mighty whispering-gallery, round which the imprisoned utterance runs, and reverberates forever.”

Soul Running Age Given Forever Holy Speech Rounds Gallery Whispering Utterance Domes

Book:Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

Source: Endeavours after the Christian life: discourses

“To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.”

Two Whole Holy Forgiving Rounds Doctrine Modesty Forgiven Centre Magnificence Largesse

Book:The Image of the City and Other Essays

Source: The Image of the City and Other Essays

“For he that diligently seeketh shall find; and the mysteries of God shall be unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost, as well in these times as in times of old as in times to come; wherefore, the course of the Lord is one eternal round" - 1 Nephi 10:19”

“And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair! Weave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise.”

Should Eye Heard Cry Hair Holy Rounds Circles Drunk Paradise Feds Honey Milk Dread Floating Dew Thrice

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!”

Ifs Mean Holy Rounds Peasants Emperor Autonomous Holy Grail Monty

Author:Graham Chapman

“When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty.”

Company Vision Lord Sun Fire Cry Holy Rounds Heavenly Host Almighty Guinea Discs Sun Rise Lord God

Author:William Blake

“The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.”

Evil Environment Alive Holy Lays Rounds Heavy Wicked Wickedness Baseness

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished