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“Aesthetic pleasure is not to be taken lightly; it's very important for the spirit and therefore the health.”

Important Spirit Pleasure Taken Importance Aesthetic

“And for Incoherent Speech, it was amongst the Gentiles taken for one sort of Prophecy, because the Prophets of their Oracles, intoxicated with a spirit, or vapor from the cave of the Pythian Oracle at Delphi, were for a time really mad, and spake like mad-men; of whoose loose words a sense might be made to fit any event, in such sort, as all bodies are said to be made of Materia prima .”

Men Made Said Body Might Spirit Taken Events Fit Speech Mad Prophet Prophecy Caves Mad Men Oracles Intoxicated Vapor Gentiles Delphi

Book:Leviathan

Source: Leviathan

“If this superstitious fear of Spirits were taken away, and with it, Prognostiques from Dreams, false Prophecies, and many other things depending thereon, by which, crafty ambitious persons abuse the simple people, men would be much more fitted then they are for civill Obedience.”

People Ifs Men Persons Dream Would Be Spirit Simple Taken Abuse Obedience Ambitious Prophecy Superstitious Crafty Ambitious Person

Book:Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated LEVIATHAN with English Grammar Exercises: by Thomas Hobbes (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“Whenever philosophy has taken into its plan religion, it has ended in skepticism; and whenever religion excludes philosophy, or the spirit of free inquiry, it leads to willful blindness and superstition.”

Philosophy Spirit Taken Plans Atheism Positive Atheism Superstitions Skepticism Blindness Inquiry

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Leaps over walls - especially when taken late in life - can be extremely perilous. To leap successfully, you need a sense of humor, the spirit of adventure and an unshakable conviction that what you are leaping over is an obstacle upon which you would otherwise fall down.”

Needs Spirit Fall Taken Risk Adventure Wall Late Conviction Obstacles Leap Sense Of Humor Falling Down Unshakable Spirit Of Adventure

Book:I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent

Source: I Leap Over The Wall - Contrasts And Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years In A Convent

“Like all children I had taken my father for granted. Now that I had lost him, I felt an emptiness that could never be filled. But I did not let myself cry, believing as a Muslim that tears pull a spirit earthward and won't let it be free.”

Believe Children Spirit Father Lost Felt Grief Taken Cry Tears Filled Granted Emptiness

Book:Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

Source: Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography

“I've taken up the Bible again, somewhat in the spirit of W.C. Fields - looking for loopholes.”

Spirit Belief Taken Fields Superstitions Loopholes

Author:David Niven

“If young gentlemen get from their years in college only manliness, esprit de corps, a release of their social gifts, a training ingive and take, a catholic taste in men and the standards of true sportsmen, they have gained much but they have not gained what a college should give them. It should give them insight into the things of the mind and the spiritthe consciousness of having taken on them the vows of true enlightenment and of having undergone the discipline, never to be shaken off, of those who seek wisdom in candor, with faithful labor and travail of spirit.”

“Words alone are inadequate to express spiritual realities. This book expresses the Red Indian spirit because it combines the best photographs ever taken of the old-time chiefs with some of their best words. You can meet these old-timers and share their wisdom. People who read this book will better understand our sacred ways.”

People Way Book Reality Spiritual Spirit Taken Share Red Sacred Photograph Chiefs Indian Inadequate Old Time Timer Old Timers

Author:Thomas Yellowtail

“The further we travel down the path of enlightenment, the more humble we become. We shouldn't seek to impress others—or allow ourselves to be taken—with mere outer trappings. If we do our inner work, our spirit will be our calling card. Nice to meet you.”

Ifs Spirit Work Path Taken Nice Calling Travel Enlightenment Mere Humble Cards Impress Nice To Meet You

Author:Philip Toshio Sudo

“I think that the only choice that we have in life is whether we align ourselves with God or not. I think everything else is all taken care of for us. You know? If you choose to align with your source, with your spirit, then your life will go in a certain direction. If you choose to align yourself with your ego, and your false self, and the belief that who you are is what you accomplish and what other people think of you and what you accumulate, if you just go that route - the outer route, if you will, the outer path - your life will go in a different direction.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Different Self Care Life Is Spirit Certain Choices Belief Path Taken Source Ego Who You Are Accomplish You Choose Routes Think Of You Different Directions

Author:Wayne Dyer

“But we have yet to make peace basic to our education. The most important subject in the world is hardly taught at all. In the spirit of this passage, the editor has taken the liberty of editing Mr. Cousins' language to make it more gender inclusive.”

World Important Spirit Language Peace Liberty Taken Subjects Taught Gender Editors Passages Editing Cousin Making Peace

Author:Norman Cousins

“A nation is not going mad when it does extravagant things, so long as it does them in an extravagant spirit. But whenever we see things done wildly, but taken tamely, then the State is growing insane.”

Long Doe States Done Political Spirit Politics Nations Taken Growing Mad Insane Things Done Extravagant

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.”

Feels Art Spirit Taken Wonderful Music Is Art Is Manifestation Melody Works Of Art

Author:Pablo Casals

“Every breath taken in by the man Who loves, and the woman who loves, Goes to fill the water tank Where the spirit horses drink.”

Men Spirit Water Taken He Man Drink Horse Breaths Tanks

Book:Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011

Source: Stealing Sugar from the Castle: Selected and New Poems, 1950-2013: Selected Poems, 1950–2011

“The Saviour and the Comforter, two Persons of the Godhead: the One ever saves from sins, and the Other comforts him who is saved. Their very names are taken from their deeds, and are always actually justified. He comforts! The Holy Spirit comforts the believing soul, as a mother comforts her child.”

Believe Children Persons Two Soul Spirit Mother Names Sin Taken Holy Comfort Deeds Saved Holy Spirit Justified Saviour Comforter

Author:John of Kronstadt

“There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.”

Giving May Ends Spirit My Own Taken Comfort Mercy Perseverance Leaving Humble Wounds Gods Will Bereavement Pledge Great Gifts Leaving Him

Book:Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman

Source: Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman

“There is no more fulfilling experience in all the world than the sense that God's Spirit has taken you and dared to use you for His glory.”

World Use Spirit Taken Glory Fulfilling

Book:Preaching in the spirit

Source: Preaching in the spirit

“Before I was not in the television cameras every 5 minutes, I wasn't as visible, but this year I plan on being more visible to ensure that Virgin Rap Division does not lose. Although I am a very low key person, I am competitive, and with every ounce of my spirit, I will ensure that this label is taken seriously.”

Years Persons Doe Spirit Loses Taken Plans Minutes Television Keys Lows Cameras Rap Labels Visible Division Virgins Low Key

Author:Jermaine Dupri

“I was taken in the Spirit to the burning bush on Mount Horeb, Moses' "first ascension," and allowed to witness the encounter he had with the Lord there. Throughout the visitation, I was enabled to know and feel the thoughts and emotions of Moses' inner being. ... There was a Holy Narrator beside me who helped me understand what I saw and heard, and he made references to relevant passages of Scripture. There were other Biblical figures also present - Joshua, Samuel, David, and even the Lord Jesus were there.”

“However much pains may be taken to combine the soldier and the citizen in one and the same individual, whatever may be done to nationalize wars, never will it be possible to do away with the professionalism of the business; and if that cannot be done, then those who belong to it will always look upon themselves as a kind of guild, in the regulations, laws, and customs in which the "Spirit of War" finds its expression. It would be very wrong to look down upon this corporate spirit, or esprit de corps, which may and should exist more or less in every Army.”

Ifs Should Looks Kind May War Done Would Be Pain Law Spirit Individual Taken Expression Citizens Army Soldier Corporate Look Up Customs Regulation Professionalism Guilds Esprit De Corps

Author:Carl von Clausewitz

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