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“Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.”

Heart Body Sacrifice Temples Sanctify Recompense Body Temperature Body Is A Temple

Author:Khalil Gibran

“Every apartment devoted to the circulation of the glass, may be regarded as a temple set apart for the performance of human sacrifices. And they ought to be fitted up like the ancient temples in Egypt, in a manner to show the real atrocity of the superstition that is carried on within their walls.”

Humans May Real Shows Sacrifice Wall Ought Performances Ancient Glasses Temples Superstitions Devoted Apartment Egypt Atrocities Circulation Intemperance

Author:Thomas Lovell Beddoes

“I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem.”

Moments Passion Felt Sacrifice Temples Ancestor Helpless Incapable Defiance Ardent Great Moments

Book:Letters of Sigmund Freud

Source: Letters of Sigmund Freud

“In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary.”

Littles Philosophy Chance Sacrifice Temples Laboratory Sanctuary Experimentation Admission Scientific Method Purification

Book:T. H. Huxley on Education

Source: T. H. Huxley on Education

“Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity.”

Should Looks May Faces Levels Sacrifice Praying East Look Up Divinity Temples Statues Altars

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“Those who understand the eternal blessings which come from the temple know that no sacrifice is too great, no price too heavy, no struggle too difficult in order to receive those blessings.”

Knows Order Difficult Struggle Sacrifice Blessing Eternal Heavy Temples

Author:Thomas S. Monson

“The rates of taxation climb and the levels of capital decline, until the only remaining wealth beyond the reach of the regime is the very protein of human flesh, and that too is finally taxed, bound, and gagged, and brought to the colossal temple of the state - a final sacrifice of carnal revenue to feed the declining elite.”

Humans States Wealth Levels Sacrifice Finals Rate Bounds Flesh Climbs Temples Regimes Elites Decline Taxation Revenue Protein Colossal

Book:Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century

Source: Wealth and Poverty: A New Edition for the Twenty-First Century