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• Wine's terrible for babies." Dorian swept into the sitting room to join me, elegantly arranging himself on a love seat that displayed his purple velvet robes to best effect. "Well of course it is. I'd never dream of giving wine to an infant! What do you take me for, a barbarian? But for you... well, it might go a long way to make you a little less jumpy. You've been positively unbearable to live around. "I can't have it either. It affects the babies in utero.

  Richelle Mead

  Dream, Baby, Wine

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Shadow Heir”, p.16, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• There is a trend today that would put a new robe on the prodigal son while he is still feeding hogs. Some would put the ring on his finger while he still in the pigsty. Others would paint the pigsty and advocate bigger and better hog pens.

  Vance Havner

  Son, Bigger And Better, Laziness

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• I'd grown up fearing the lynch mobs of the Ku Klux Klan; as an adult I was starting to wonder if I'd been afraid of the wrong white people all along - where I was being pursued not by bigots in white robes, but by left-wing zealots draped in flowing sanctimony.

  Clarence Thomas

  Wings, Ku Klux Klan, White

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• If delight may provoke men's labour, what greater delights is there then to behold the earth as apparelled with plants, as with a robe of imbroidered worke, set with orient pearles, and garnished with great diversitie of rare and costly jewels? The delight is great but the use greater, and joyned often with necessitie.

  John Gerard

  Beauty, Home, Men

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• Like a robe wears out over time and turns to rags, life wears out from day to day, from second to second.

  Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

  Buddhism, Suffering, Rags

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• The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that the path of a planet should be an ellipse .... It is this logical thinking that is the real meat of the physical sciences. The social scientist keeps the skin and throws away the meat.... His theorems no more follow from his postulates than the hunches of a horse player follow logically from the latest racing news. The result is guesswork clad in long flowing robes of gobbledygook.

  Anthony Standen

  Horse, Real, Distance

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• I've never walked home wearing just a pink robe and a pair of slippers.

  Jessica Sorensen

  Home, Slippers, Pairs

  Jessica Sorensen (2013). “The Coincidence of Callie and Kayden”, p.163, Hachette UK

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• Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large enough to cover the iniquity of one corrupt judge.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Law, Judging, Earth

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.241

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• Again rejoicing Nature sees
  Her robe assume its vernal hues
  Her leafy locks wave in the breeze,
  All freshly steep'd in the morning dews.

  Robert Burns

  Nature, Morning, Spring

  Robert Burns, John Gibson Lockhart, James Currie (1835). “The works of Robert Burns: containing his life, by John Lockhart, esq. ; the poetry and correspondence of Dr. Currie's edition ; biographical sketches of the poet by himself, Gilbert Burns, Professor Stewart, and others”, p.189

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• The cloven-foot of self-interest was now and then to be seen aneath the robe of public principle.

  John Galt

  Self, Feet, Principles

  John Galt (1842). “The Provost: And Other Tales”, p.8, Edinburgh : W. Blackwood

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• When I am in the darkness, I want to think of it in the light, with you," he said, and straightened, and turned to walk toward the door. The parchment robes of the Silent Brothers moved around him as he moved, and Tessa watched him, paralyzed, every pulse of her heart beating out the words she could not say: Good-bye. Good-bye. Good-bye.

  Cassandra Clare

  Brother, Heart, Thinking

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1386, Simon and Schuster

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• Freedom may come quickly in robes of peace or after ages of conflict and war, but come it will, and abide it will, so long as the principles by which it was acquired are held sacred.

  Edward Everett

  Freedom, War, Long

  Edward Everett (1850). “Orations and speeches on various occasions”, p.609

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• I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Real, Angel, Hands

  FaceBook post by Richard Paul Evans from Dec 05, 2011

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• Raffael's drapery is the assistant of character, in Michelangelo it envelopes grandeur; it is in Reubens the ponderous robe of pomp.

  Henry Fuseli

  Character, Criticism, Envelopes

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• Tis not the robe or garment I affect; For who would marry with a suit of clothes?

  John Heywood

  Clothes, Tailors, Suits

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• Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar.

  Guru Gobind Singh

  Doe, Hunger, Guru

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• Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard.

  Mason Cooley

  Jargon, Beard

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• In the learned journal, in the influential newspaper, I discern no form; only some irresponsible shadow; oftener some monied corporation, or some dangler, who hopes, in the mask and robes of his paragraph, to pass for somebody. But through every clause and part of speech of the right book I meet the eyes of the most determined men; his force and terror inundate every word: the commas and dashes are alive; so that the writing is athletic and nimble,--can go far and live long.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Eye

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• Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.

  Tim Ward

  Crowds, Metta, Effects

  Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.207, Changemakers Books

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• Exotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles - the trappings of religion - confuse as much as they help. They endorse the assumption of the existence of an elite whose explicit commitment grants them implicit extraordinariness.

  Stephen Batchelor

  Commitment, Names, Office

  Stephen Batchelor (1998). “Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to Awakening”, p.42, Penguin

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• Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Children, Moving

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”

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• O for a summer noon, when light and breeze Sport on the grass, like ripples o'er a lake Alive with freshness! when the full round Sun, With the Creator's smile upon his face, Walks like a prince of glory through the path Of Heaven! - Thou vast, and ever-glorious sky, Mantling the earth with thy majestic robe.

  Robert Montgomery

  Summer, Sports, Sky

  Robert Montgomery (1828). “A Universal Prayer, Death, A Vision of Heaven and A Vision of Hell”, p.129

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• Napoleon said of Massena, that he was not himself until the battle began to go against him; then, when the dead began to fall in ranks around him, awoke his powers of combination, and he put on terror and victory as a robe.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fall, Adversity, Victory

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.117, Harvard University Press

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• This fulfils my ambition. I still have my father's robe as Chancellor. I shall be proud to serve you in this splendid office.

  Winston Churchill

  Father, Ambition, Office

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• There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.

  Al Pacino

  Summer, Sleep, Air

  Source: www.rawkblog.net

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