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“It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.”

Philosophy Spirit Fall Divine Stones Plant Agency Accord Divine Power

Book:An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population: Illustrated

“In Koln, a town of monks and bones, And pavement fang'd with murderous stones, And rags and hags, and hideous wenches, I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks! Ye nymphs that reign o'er sewers and sinks, The River Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth whash the river Rhine.”

Wells Two Cities Known Divine Rivers Stones Towns Bones Defined Reign Well Known Seventies Monk Hideous Fangs Rags Stink Pavement Sewers Cologne Nymphs Wenches

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The Divine mind is as visible in its full energy of operation on every lowly bank and mouldering stone as in the lifting of the pillars of heaven, and settling the foundation of the earth.”

Mind Earth Energy Heaven Divine Stones Foundation Settling Operations Visible Lifting Pillars Omnipotence

Book:Modern Painters

Source: Modern Painters

“... but I believe the divine ones will send other great masters to preach the truth to mankind, and that mankind will always receive them with the cross and the fire and the stones”

Believe I Believe Fire Mankind Divine Masters Stones Crosses

Book:The Mists of Avalon

Source: The Mists of Avalon

“Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all diseases but as it is commonly abused by most men, which take it as tinkers do ale, 'Tis a plague, a mischief, a violent purger of goods, lands, health; hellish, devilish and damned tobacco, the ruin and overthrow of body and soul.”

Men Soul Body Land Divine Disease Stones Gold Philosopher Violent Ruins Smoking Goods Remedy Sovereign Plague Tobacco Mischief Ale Devilish Panacea

Author:Robert A. Burton

“What makes the Stones' arrogance so divine is that we all believe that long ago and far away they weren't rich and famous but poor and struggling, just like us.”

Believe Long Poor Struggle Rich Divine Stones Arrogance Far Away Long Ago

Author:Jon Landau

“Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.”

People Inspiration Accepting Divine Cold Argument Stones Wikipedia Divine Inspiration Bummer Stone Cold

Author:Clay Shirky

“Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart I know that the most wretched among you have seen a divine face emerge from their darkness. That is the face you are asked to see.”

Knows Heart Feelings Faces Suffering Darkness Divine My Heart Stones Sweat Anguish Wretched

Author:Albert Camus

“Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.”

Ifs Want Doe Art Made Creative Clear Stupid Divine Willing Mouths Rain Flow Rivers Stones Block Manage Streams Dry Paradox Thrones Spills Rubies Creative Life Censoring Jackasses Dry Up

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.”

Knows Men Real Reason Suffering Fear Emotion Half Blood Divine Flower Stones Wine Altars Homage

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“... the most important concept ever put forth was that matter, ALL matter, with no exceptions from stone to star to starfish to student to sovereign, is as divine as all else in the cosmos, for all flows from Consciousness, the Word that came before the World - and all, in time, will flow back.”

World Important Matter Stars Consciousness Students Divine Concepts Flow Stones Cosmos Exception Sovereign Starfish

Author:Ki Longfellow