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“Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?”

Knows Men Book States Spirit Suffering Fate Creatures Pages Brutes

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)

“There are, indeed, few merrier spectacles than that of many windmills bickering together in a fresh breeze over a woody country; their halting alacrity of movement, their pleasant business, making bread all day with uncouth gesticulation; their air, gigantically human, as of a creature half alive, put a spirit of romance into the tamest landscape.”

Source: Dreams of elsewhere: the selected travel writings of Robert Louis Stevenson

“Body and mind, and spirit, all combineTo make the Creature, human and divine.Of this great trinity no part deny.Affirm, affirm, the Great Eternal I.”

Mind Humans Body Spirit Divine Creatures Eternal Deny Mind And Body Trinity

Book:Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

Source: Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)

“Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded.”

Should Humans Spirit Poor Powerful Wonderful Proud Creatures Speech Mouths Devil Mere Driven Proceeding

Book:The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

Source: The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt

“There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.”

Source: Jane Austen's correspondence and letters: The complete and definitive edition

“Up above Aliens hover Making home movies For the folks back home Of all these weird creatures Who lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves And live for their secrets.”

Home Spirit Secret Creatures Folks Holes Aliens Locks Back Home Drills Lock Up

Author:Thom Yorke

“Do we, mad as we all are after riches, hear often enough from the pulpit the spirit of those words in which Dean Swift, in his epitaph on the affluent and profligate Colonel Chartres, announces the small esteem of wealth in the eyes of God, from the fact of His thus lavishing it upon the meanest and basest of His creatures?”

Enough Facts Eye Spirit Wealth Creatures Mad Riches Esteem Dean Pulpit Epitaph Affluent Colonels

Book:Character and characteristic men

Source: Character and characteristic men

“When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman.”

Spirit Mother Wife Style Holy Creatures Glory Filled Holy Spirit Glorious Adam Ornaments Living Creatures

Book:The Life of Luther

Source: The Life of Luther

“A good-looking piece of scenery anywhere delights the eye and elevates the spirits. Some of us, crude creatures that we are, are merely excited; finer souls draw ethical and spiritual nutrients from the sight.”

Soul Eye Spiritual Spirit Pieces Creatures Draws Sight Delight Excited Ethical Looking Good Crude Scenery Nutrients

Author:Barbara Holland

“Too much hard luck can create a permanent meanness of spirit in any creature.”

Hard Spirit Too Much Creatures Luck Permanent Meanness

Book:The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Source: The Glass Castle: A Memoir

“We believe that man's value - as every creature's value, ultimately - lies not in the mere intellect but in the spirit: in the capacity to reflect that which, for lack of a more precise word, we choose to call “the divine,” i.e. that which is true and beautiful beyond all manifestation, that which remains timeless (and therefore unchangeable) within all changes.”

Men Believe Beautiful Spirit Lying Values Divine Creatures Capacity Remains Mere Intellect Manifestation Timeless Precise Unchangeable

Book:The Lightning and the Sun

Source: The Lightning and the Sun

“Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.”

Life Inspirational Needs Mind Firsts Kind Spirit Change Views Healing Creatures Transformation Notion Including Creator Insight Crucial Spiritual Transformation

Author:Nhat Hanh

“It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.”