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“I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?”

Ifs Stills Use Might Would Be Eye Divine Spring Sacred Silent Forgotten Wander Charm Lanes Aisle Catalogues Larks Spring Day

Book:Adam Bede ... Tenth edition

Source: Adam Bede ... Tenth edition

“Private property is held sacred in all good governments, and particularly in our own. Yet shall the fear of invading it prevent a general from marching his army over a cornfield or burning a house which protects the enemy? A thousand other instances might be cited to show that laws must sometimes be silent when necessity speaks.”

Sometimes Shows Government Might Law House Speak Enemy Thousand Protect Army Sacred Property Silent Instance Burning Private Property Invading

Author:Andrew Jackson

“While doing centering prayer, the practice is to let go of any thought or perception. The priority is to be as silent as possible and when that is not possible to let the noise of the thoughts be the sacred symbol for a while, without analyzing them.”

Prayer Practice Letting Go Perception Sacred Silent Priorities Noise Symbols Analyzing Centering Centering Prayer

Author:Thomas Keating

“I love silent cinema but don't hold it sacred. Like any branch of film there are some very boring films alongside the masterpieces.”

Film Sacred Silent Boring Cinema Branches Masterpiece

Author:Michel Hazanavicius

“Know that the mirror of the heart is boundless. . . Here, opinions become silent, otherwise they will lead you into errors. . . for the heart is sacred - even more the heart is sacredness itself.”

Knows Heart Opinion Mirrors Sacred Errors Silent Boundless Sacredness

Author:Rumi

“In crime the egoist has hitherto asserted himself and mocked at the sacred; the break with the sacred, or rather of the sacred, may become general. A revolution never returns, but an immense, reckless, shameless, conscienceless, proud—crime, doesn't it rumble in the distant thunder, and don't you see how the sky grows ominously silent and gloomy?”

May Grows Break Sky Crime Revolution Return Proud Sacred Silent Immense Thunder Reckless Gloomy Shameless Rumble

Author:Max Stirner

“Cruel with guilt, and daring with despair, the midnight murderer bursts the faithless bar; invades the sacred hour of silent rest and leaves, unseen, a dagger in your breast.”

Literature Hours Despair Murder Sacred Guilt Silent Bars Breasts Daring Unseen Midnight Murderer Daggers Faithless

Book:The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

Source: The Poetical Works of Johnson: Parnell, Gray, and Smollett, with Memoirs, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes