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“Aerial spirits, by great Jove design'd To be on earth the guardians of mankind: Invisible to mortal eyes they go, And mark our actions, good or bad, below: The immortal spies with watchful care preside, And thrice ten thousand round their charges glide: They can reward with glory or with gold, A power they by Divine permission hold.”

Source: The British Poets: Including Translations. In One Hundred Volumes. LXXXVIII

“What is the mark of a Christian? That he be purified of all defilement of the flesh and of the spirit in the Blood of Christ, perfecting sanctification in the fear of God and the love of Christ, and that he have no blemish nor spot nor any such thing; that he be holy and blameless and so eat the Body of Christ and drink His Blood; for 'he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgement to himself.' What is the mark of those who eat the Bread and drink the Cup of Christ? That they keep in perpetual remembrance Him who died for us and rose again.”

Body Christian Spirit Christ Blood Drink Holy Mark Died Rose Flesh Bread Spots Cups Judgement Perpetual Remembrance Sacraments Sanctification Body Of Christ Blameless Defilement

Author:Saint Basil

“Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely and distinctly every year. Lay aside every weight, and the sin that so easily threatens you. Press towards the mark more earnestly. Fight a better fight, and war a better warfare every year you live. Pray more. Read more. Subdue self more. Love the brethren more. Oh that you may endeavor to grow in grace every year, that the end of your Christian course may be better than the beginning!”

Feels Years May War Ends Self Christian Spirit Fighting Courses Grows Christ Sin Walks Grace Praying Weight Mark Presses Lays Witness Endeavor Warfare Assurance Brethren

Author:J. C. Ryle

“The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.”

Men Young Spirit Women Mark Burning Young Women

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Aeschylus (Illustrated)

“Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand, it is the handmaid of a sober, industrious, righteous, and brave man, who devotes all his powers to the service of the people, it is the sign of a lofty spirit that harbours no mean thoughts”

People Men Mean Hands Spirit Poverty Mark Brave Righteous Sober Lofty Sloth Brave Man Extravagance Industrious Harbour Intemperance Handmaids Thoughtlessness

Author:Plutarch

“To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing.”

World Matter Would Be Action Law Spirit Effort Fairs Mark Democratic Privilege Profit Secure Corporations Republic Permit Capitalist Abandonment Defying

Book:Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: Presidential addresses and state papers

“Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward.”

World Looks Past Spirit Individual Poor Views Stage Regret Mark Independence Point Of View Artistic Substitutes Glamour Present Day Old World Individual Freedom Festivities

Author:Flora Thompson

“The mark of community is not the absence of conflict. It's the presence of a reconciling spirit.”

Spirit Community Conflict Mark Absence

Author:Bill Hybels

“The esteem of wise and good men is the greatest of all temporal encouragements to virtue; and it is a mark of an abandoned spirit to have no regard to it.”

Men Spirit Virtue Wise Encouragement Mark Regard Esteem Good Man Abandoned

Author:Edmund Burke

“To rejoice in life, to find the world beautiful and delightful to live in, was a mark of the Greek spirit which distinguished it from all that had gone before. It is a vital distinction.”

World Beautiful Spirit Gone Mark Greek Distinction Rejoice Delightful Greece Distinguished

Book:The Greek way ; The Roman way

Source: The Greek way ; The Roman way

“Parasitism is the only practice of the church; with its ideal of anaemia, its holiness, draining all blood, all love, all hope for life; the beyond as the will to negate every reality; the cross as the mark of recognition for the most subterranean conspiracy that ever existed-against health, beauty, whatever has turned out well, courage, spirit, graciousness of the soul, against life itself.”

Wells Soul Reality Spirit Church Practice Blood Atheism Ideals Crosses Mark Positive Atheism Recognition Holiness Conspiracy Graciousness Draining Health Beauty Anaemia

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“As one who knows many things, the humanist loves the world precisely because of its manifold nature and the opposing forces in itdo not frighten him. Nothing is further from him than the desire to resolve such conflictsand this is precisely the mark of the humanist spirit: not to evaluate contrasts as hostility but to seek human unity, that superior unity, for all that appears irreconcilable.”

Knows World Humans Spirit Desire Force Mark Unity Tolerance Superiors Resolve Humanist Contrast Hostility Evaluate Opposing Manifold

Author:Stefan Zweig