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• When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Stars, Night, Air

  JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE (1836). “THE CULPRIT FAY”, p.89

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• But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.

  Paula McLain

  Heart, Eye, Nurse

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.204, Ballantine Books

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• Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense. Some consider me as a demon or a wolf in Buddhist robes. That also, I think nonsense.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Kings, Thinking

  Source: www.opti-mystical.com

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• Playboy seems like a sad magazine for me. It seems like for men who would sit around in a bath robe.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Men, Magazines, Baths

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego.

  Stuart Wilde

  Ego, Spirituality, Never Forget

  Stuart Wilde (1996). “Infinite Self: 33 Steps to Reclaiming Your Inner Power”, p.142, Hay House, Inc

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• Just because a man is dressed in a clean white robe does not mean his heart and hands are clean. Any man who neglects his conscience is a dangerous animal. Never judge a man by his image. Images can be bought or produced by any Hollywood producer, marketing team or fleet of stylists. Even kids know how to wear amazing costumes for Halloween. Always judge a man by the coloring of his heart and only his heart. Truth can be found in his record of actions, not intentions.

  Suzy Kassem

  Halloween, Team, Mean

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• Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.

  Thomas Campbell

  Inspirational, Nature, Distance

  Pleasures of Hope pt. 1, l. 7 (1799).

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• A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him.

  John Milton

  Singing, Fancy, Poet

  John Milton (1872). “Autobiography of John Milton: Or, Milton's Life in His Own Words”, p.78

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• When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today?

  Joan Anderson

  Angel, Thinking, People

  Joan Wester Anderson (2009). “In the Arms of Angels: True Stories of Heavenly Guardians”, p.26, Loyola Press

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• I hope that Beyond the Robe helps you to feel closer to the monks and nuns and to better understand their immense potential to provide leadership in their world and further insight into ours. Instead of simply admiring them from afar, let's all get close enough to really listen.

  Bobby Sager

  World, Afar, Helping

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• The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture

  David J

  People, Culture, Isolated

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• You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel.

  Henry Bolingbroke

  Crush, Peace, War

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• Someone sits in a mountain vale A robe of clouds, rainbows for tassels The fragrant forest is the place to live The road has been long and difficult With a heart full of doubt and regret A life has passed and nothing has been accomplished Others call it failure I stand alone devoted to this Cold Mountain life

  Hanshan

  Regret, Heart, Clouds

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• A few days ago Tan Casipo said to me, 'Some people come here with so much dust in their eyes it's unbearable to talk to them.' What does that say about the monkhood? He can't tolerate people with 'dust in their eyes.' All that these monks have developed here is a safe little self-centred world which they call holy because villagers bow down to them. Living in a forest and wearing a robe doesn't make you better than anybody else.

  Tim Ward

  Eye, Self, Dust

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• Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Death, Waiting Rooms, Immortality

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1855). “Sermons Delivered in Exeter Hall, Strand, During the Enlargement of New Park Street Chapel, Southmark”, p.140

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• If your path had been smooth, you would have depended upon your own surefootedness; but God roughened the path, so you have to take hold of His hand. If the weather had been mild, you would have loitered along the watercourses, but at the first howl of the storm you quickened your pace heavenward and wrapped around you the warm robe of Saviour's righteousness.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Hands, Weather, Storm

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1878). “The worried housekeeper, and other sermons”

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• I think people are always looking for gurus. It's the easiest thing in the world to become a guru. It's quite terrifying. I once saw something fascinating here in New York. It must have been in the early seventies--guru time. A man used to go and sit in Central Park, wearing elaborate golden robes. He never once opened his mouth, he just sat. He'd appear at lunchtime. People appeared from everywhere, because he was obviously a holy man, and this went on for months. They just sat around him in reverent silence. Eventually he got fed up with it and left. Yes. It's as easy as that.

  Doris Lessing

  New York, Men, Thinking

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• Real Freedom is to not feel limited when wearing this Zen robe, this troublesome formal robe. Similarly, in our busy life we should wear this civilization without being bothered by it, without ignoring it, without being caught by it.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Real, Civilization, Busy

  "Not Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen". Book by Shunryū Suzuki. Chapter: "Not Always So", p. 95, 2002.

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• Baseball is a lot like the ivy-covered wall of Wrigley Field--it gives off a great appearance, but when you run into it, you discover the bricks underneath. At times, it seems that we're dealing with a group of men who aren't much different than others we've all run into over the years, except they wear neckties instead of robes and hoods.

  Hank Aaron

  Baseball, Running, Wall

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• Secret Instructions for Reaching Xanadu: Go eastward from the Bewildered-Dragon Lake Until you see the Monastery of the West Tower straight and high above your head. Then take Those charms which, as I told you, in the breast Of your most inner robe you have hidden, and follow Their clear instruction.

  Arthur Davison Ficke

  Lakes, Dragons, Secret

  Arthur Davison Ficke (1938). “Selected Poems: With a Preface on the Nature of Poetry”

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• I am hopeful that Antarctica in its symbolic robe of white will shine forth as a continent of peace as nations working together there in the cause of science set an example of international cooperation.

  Richard E. Byrd

  White, Hopeful, Shining

  Statement made during International Geophysical Year (IGY) operations in 1957, inscribed on the Byrd Memorial at McMurdo Station, Antartica, 1957.

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• What I'd like to have right now is for all you fat, out of shape, (insert city) sweathogs to keep the noise down while I take my robe off and show all the ladies what a real man is supposed to look like.

  Rick Rude

  Real, Men, Cities

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• The heart is like an instrument whose strings Steal nobler music from Life's many frets: The golden threads are spun thro' Suffering's fire, Wherewith the marriage-robes for heaven are woven: And all the rarest hues of human life Take radiance, and are rainbow'd out in tears.

  Gerald Massey

  Heart, Fire, Rainbow

  Gerald Massey (1864). “Poems”, p.204

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• You, mad to expect repentance,Tear your robe all you want;I will never repent!

  Abu Nuwas

  Mad, Tears, Want

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• All things are spiritual. It doesn't matter what you do or who you are or what kind of blue jeans you wear, or whether you wear an ochre robe or whether you're sober or asleep or dreaming. It's all the same.

  Frederick Lenz

  Dream, Spiritual, Buddhist

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