Frankincense Quotes

• The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Nature, Significant

  Henry David Thoreau, Stephen Allen Fender (2008). “Walden”, p.289, Oxford University Press

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• The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

  Sean O'Casey

  Running, Drama, Inspiration

  Sean O'Casey (2011). “Autobiographies III: Rose and Crown and Sunset and Evening Star”, p.413, Faber & Faber

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• And if there come the singers, and the dancers and the flute players - buy of their gifts also. For they too are gatherers of fruit and frankincense, and that which they bring, though fashioned of dreams, is raiment and fod for your soul.

  Khalil Gibran

  Dream, Player, Dancer

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Of all the exotic aromas and experiences from my sojourn in Ethiopia, it’s the frankincense I miss most.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Missing, Exotic, Aroma

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• I don't know when pepper mills in a restaurant got to be right behind frankincense and myrrh in prominence. It used to be in a little jar that sat next to the salt on the table and everyone passed it around, sneezed, and it was no big deal.

  Erma Bombeck

  Tables, Littles, Jars

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• There are stories told to him only at this time of year. Fantastic, magical stories, the old Hollier in the woods finding only three red berries, which peel back in the night to reveal gifts of frankincense, gold and myrrh, Christmas in hot deserts, dust-blown countries, the necklace of tears, and the story of the robin.

  Sarah Hall

  Christmas, Country, Night

  Sarah Hall (2010). “Haweswater”, p.193, Faber & Faber

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• Lives there the man with soul so dead as to disown the wish to merit the people's applause, and having uttered words worthy to be kept in cedar oil to latest times, to leave behind him rhymes that dread neither herrings nor frankincense.

  Aulus Persius Flaccus

  Men, Oil, People

  "The satires of Persius". Book by Persius, 1799.

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• Is it possible Hanukkah doesn't inspire folksy songs? Plot lines may be a part. The Christmas story has a lot of material to work with. There's Jesus and his birth, the wise men, their gifts and tons of frankincense.

  Matisyahu

  Wise, Song, Jesus

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