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“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire a little from sight and afterward return again.”

World Littles Soul Death Dies Secret Return All Things Sight Life And Death Retiring Reincarnation Incarnation Abode Beautiful Death

Book:The Annotated Emerson

Source: The Annotated Emerson

“Let us ask ourselves seriously and honestly, 'What do I believe after all? What manner of man am I after all? What sort of show would I make after all, if the people around me knew my heart and all my secret thoughts?" What sort of show then do I already make in the sight of Almighty God, who sees every man exactly as he is?'”

People Ifs Men Believe Heart Shows Asks I Believe Secret My Heart Sight Honestly Every Man Almighty Almighty God Secret Thoughts

Author:Charles Kingsley

“Dwellers by the sea cannot fail to be impressed by the sight of its ceaseless ebb and flow, and are apt, on the principles of that rude philosophy of sympathy and resemblance... to trace a subtle relation, a secret harmony, between its tides and the life of man... The belief that most deaths happen at ebb tide is said to be held along the east coast of England from Northumberland to Kent.”

Men Said Philosophy Happens Belief Secret Principles Failing Sea Flow Sight England Relation Harmony East Subtle Tides Impressed Rude Coast Resemblance East Coast Ebb And Flow Dwellers Kent

Author:James G. Frazer

“Above the care of Nature and of State, Suspended in the noon of Night we wait, All slumber nursing, to make sweet and pure, While secret Nature, weaving works the cure. We are the handmaids of the hollow night, The angels of the dark, restoring sight; We go -- the pains of Day to soothe, console -- Awake, arise! Behold thou art made whole.”

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Author:Bram Stoker

“On December 22, 1986, finding I was body positive, I set myself a target: I would disclose my secret and survive Margaret Thatcher. I did. Now I have set my sights on the millennium and a world where we are all equal.”

World Body Secret Equal Findings Sight Target December Millennium

Author:Derek Jarman

“Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.”

Needs Looks Use Hands Eye Faces Sides Secret Behinds Vision Fronts Sight Mirrors Track Prey Pins Predator Peripheral Vision Sneaking Up

Author:Diane Ackerman

“[D]rawing up 'secret war plans' for a possible attack on Iraq wasn't irrational. The low-level war against Saddam was 12 years old, with no end in sight. American and British pilots were getting shot at, sanctions weren't working, and Bush was getting warnings that Saddam had all those terrible weapons and would use them against America. Bush would have been a fool not to draw up plans. Gee, wait till the critics find out that FDR, without ever informing the media, was plotting to fight Japan and Germany before Pearl Harbor.”

“It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes.”

Persons Secret Decided Sight University Burned Ceremony Earthquakes Preventing Infallible

Book:The Portable Voltaire

Source: The Portable Voltaire

“We exist only by virtue of what we possess, we possess only what is really present to us, and many of our memories, our moods, our ideas sail away on a voyage of their own until they are lost to sight! Then we can no longer take them into account in the total which is our personality. But they know of secret paths by which to return to us.”

Knows Ideas Lost Memories Secret Virtue Path Personality Return Accounts Sight Mood Sail Our Memories Voyages

Book:Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained

Source: Remembrance of Things Past: The captive. The fugitive. Time regained