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• Many an object is not seen, though it falls within the range of our visual ray, because it does not come within the range of our intellectual ray.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fall, Intellectual, Vision

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Contemplating an object fixedly with the mind, asking myself, 'What is it?' without thinking of any other object or relating it to anything else for hours on end.

  Simone Weil

  Thinking, Mind, Vision

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• I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Nature, Vision, Awe

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• If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Art, Names, Vision

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• If believers worship with gladness and passion, anyone not yet a part of the community certainly will be attracted to the One who is the object of their worship.

  Marva Dawn

  Religious, Passion, Community

  Marva J. Dawn (1999). “A Royal Waste of Time: The Splendor of Worshiping God and Being Church for the World”, p.124, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• We can expect God to provide everything necessary to make worship possible. We children of God must ever be dependent upon God, for we have no resources of our own. We are as impoverished in worship times as a baby unable to provide its own bottle at feeding time. God, the object of our worship, also becomes the inspiration of that worship. He has imparted His own Spirit into our hearts to energize that worship. All that is due Him comes from Him. His glorious Person evokes admiration for and honor of Him, as He imparts His nature into me.

  Judson Cornwall

  Baby, Children, Inspiration

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• One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and sisters, criticize your country, criticize all the habits you have and laugh at yourself, is the best way. If you know how to laugh at yourself then you will not object or will not stand in the way of any creativity of another person.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Country

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• Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disk of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Stars, Eye, Dust

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 20), 1895.

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• The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Inspirational, Motivational, Photography

  Herbert C. Lust, Alberto Giacometti, Aprile Gallant, Portland Museum of Art (2000). “Alberto Giacometti”

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• Art has no other object than to set aside the symbols of practical utility, the generalities that are conventionally and socially accepted, everything in fact which masks reality from us, in order to set us face to face with reality itself.

  Henri Bergson

  Art, Reality, Order

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• The object of art is to make eternal the desperately fleeting moment.

  Tennessee Williams

  Art, Fleeting, Moments

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• Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Birthday, Thank You, Mother Daughter

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• What wealth have you, if you have not got Christ? If Christ is the object before you, will all the things that fret you take Christ from you? All the things you long for, will they give you more of Christ?

  George Wigram

  Long, Giving, Wealth

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• What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant well-being, and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

  John Ruskin

  Wealth, Certain, Well Being

  John Ruskin (19??). “Works”

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• The superfluities of a rich nation furnish a better object of trade than the necessities of a poor one. It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

  Edmund Burke

  World, Wealth, Rich

  Edmund Burke, Harvey C. Mansfield (1984). “Selected Letters of Edmund Burke”, p.406, University of Chicago Press

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• Intent is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. Intent is what can make a man succeed when his thoughts tell him that he is defeated. It operates in spite of the warrior's indulgence. Intent is what makes him invulnerable. Intent is what sends a shaman through a wall, through space, to infinity.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Success, Spiritual, Wall

  Carlos Castaneda (2009). “The Wheel Of Time: The Shamans Of Mexico Their Thoughts About Life De”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Each eye can have its vision separately; but when we are looking at anything our vision, which in itself is divided, joins up and unites in order to give itself as a whole to the object that is put before it.

  John Calvin

  Eye, Order, Giving

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• The ocean is an object of no small terror.

  Edmund Burke

  Ocean, Sailing, Nautical

  Edmund Burke, T. O. McLoughlin, Paul Langford, James T. Boulton (1997). “The Writings and Speeches of Edmund Burke: Volume I: The Early Writings”, p.230, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• People may excite in themselves a glow of compassion, not by toasting their feet at the fire, and saying: "Lord, teach me compassion," but by going and seeking an object that requires compassion.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Compassion, Fire, Feet

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• Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it.

  Aristotle

  Real, Men, Wish

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1846, Princeton University Press

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• Just about the only interruption we don't object to is applause.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Appreciation, Applause, Interruptions

  Sydney J. Harris (1986). “Clearing the ground”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Atheists themselves used to be very comfortable in maintaining that the universe is eternal and uncaused. The problem is that they can no longer hold that position because modern evidence that the universe started with the Big Bang. So they can't legitimately object when I make the same claim about God - he is eternal and he is uncaused.

  William Lane Craig

  Atheist, Maintaining, Bangs

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• Something inside you emerges....an innate, indwelling peace, stillness, aliveness. It is the unconditioned, who you are in your essence. It is what you had been looking for in the love object. It is yourself.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Love Yourself, Loving Yourself, Essence

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• The object of the state is always the same: to limit the individual, to tame him, to subordinate him, to subjugate him.

  Max Stirner

  Liberty, Limits, Individual

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• We know not the matter of the things for which we should pray, neither the object to whom we pray, nor the medium by or through whom we pray; none of these things know we, but by the help and assistance of the Spirit.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Matter, Spirit

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.1854, Delphi Classics

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