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• Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:
  Things least to be believed are most preferred.
  All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,
  Are readily believed if once put down in print

  John Clare

  Simple, Soul, Mint

  John Clare (1935). “The Poems”

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• Women are hungry for things of the Spirit, for truths that counter the slide of virtues all around them. Visiting teaching is a measure of the heart, an unselfish work, a sacred trust that blesses both giver and receiver.

  Bonnie D. Parkin

  Teaching, Heart, Slides

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• Life must have its sacred moments and its holy places. We need the infinite, the limitless, the uttermost -- all that can give the heart a deep and strengthening peace.

  A. Powell Davies

  Heart, Giving, Needs

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• We live in a world of energy. An important task at this time is to learn to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything -- people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we draw close to the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element ether -- the realm where energy lives and weaves. Go to the sacred places of the Earth to pray for peace, and have respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter. We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work.

  Carlos Barrios

  Animal, People, Giving

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• Everybody thinks of baseball as a sacred cow. When you have the nerve to challenge it, people look down their noses at you. There are a lot of things wrong with a lot of industries....baseball is one of them.

  Curt Flood

  Baseball, Thinking, People

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• It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.

  C. L. R. James

  People, Deception, Saws

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• Sexuality is a private matter; some believe that broadcasting it destroys the very things that make it sacred.

  Lance Loud

  Believe, Matter, Sexuality

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• The trombone is too sacred for frequent use.

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Use, Trombone

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• For love that is not requited in equal measure is not love at all; it is not sacred. And holding on to the ideal of such love can keep us from finding the one that is true.

  Kathleen McGowan

  Finding The One, Holding On, Equal

  Kathleen McGowan (2012). “The Book of Love”, p.83, Simon and Schuster

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• A sacred illness is one that educates us and alters us from the inside out, provides experiences and therefore knowledge that we could not possibly achieve in any other way, and aligns us with a life path that is, ultimately, of benefit to ourselves and those around us.

  Deena Metzger

  Inspirational, Life, Encouraging

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• I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.

  Marianne Fredriksson

  Lakes, Tree, Waterfalls

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• The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low passes. We often had to wade through swift running ice-cold brooks. It has long since we had seen a glacier, but as we were approaching the tasam at Barka, a chain of glaciers gleaming in the sunshine came into view. The landscape was dominated by the 25,000-foot peak of Gurla Mandhata; less striking, but far more famous, was the sacred Mount Kailash, 3,000 feet lower, which stands in majestic isolation apart from the Himalayan range.

  Heinrich Harrer

  Running, Country, Sunshine

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• Nothing is sacred to a gamester.

  Bernard-Joseph Saurin

  Gambling

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• Human society is born in the shadow of religious fear, and in that stage the suppression of heresy is a sacred social duty. Then comes the rise of a priesthood, and the independent thinker is met with punishment in this world and the threat of eternal damnation hereafter. Even today it is from the religious side that the greatest danger to freedom of thought comes. Religion is the last thing that man will civilise.

  Chapman Cohen

  Religious, Independent, Men

  "The Freethinker", Vol. 84, G.W. Foote,(p. 215), 1964.

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• If women were in charge, abortion would be a sacrament, an occasion of deep and serious and sacred meaning.

  Carter Heyward

  Abortion, Serious, Would Be

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• Insurrection is the most sacred of rights and the most indispensable of duties.

  Marquis de Lafayette

  Rights, Duty, Indispensable

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• As the sun is to the earth, so Honour is to a man. without it, he will not flourish. All else may fail you, but honour is the treasure no one can take from you, the shield no one can penetrate unless you let them. Honour is beautiful and clean. Honour is sacred.

  Morgan Llywelyn

  Beautiful, Men, Treasure

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• Each of us has our own specific vocation, a sacred journey prepared by the Creator of the universe.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Journey, Vocation, Prepared

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• The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

  James Dwight Dana

  Book, Earth, Stills

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• The woman who makes a sweet, beautiful home, filling it with love and prayer and purity, is doing something better than anything else her hands could find to do beneath the skies. A true mother is one of the holiest secrets of home happiness. God sends many beautiful things to this world, many noble gifts; but no blessing is richer than that which He bestows in a mother who has learned love's lessons well, and has realized something of the meaning of her sacred calling.

  J.R. Miller

  Beautiful, Mother, Sweet

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• The spirit of playful competition is, as a social impulse, older than culture itself and pervades all life like a veritable ferment. Ritual grew up in sacred play; poetry was born in play and nourished on play; music and dancing were pure play....We have to conclude, therefore, that civilization is, in its earliest phases, played. It does not come from play...it arises in and as play, and never leaves it.

  Johan Huizinga

  Civilization, Play, Dancing

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• Opinions are not to be learned by rote, like the letters of an alphabet, or the words of a dictionary. They are conclusions to be formed, and formed by each individual in the sacred and free citadel of the mind, and there enshrined beyond the arm of law to reach, or force to shake; ay! and beyond the right of impertinent curiosity to violate, or presumptuous arrogance to threaten.

  Frances Wright

  Law, Arrogance, Curiosity

  Frances Wright (1831). “Course of Popular Lectures,”, p.132

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• It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or sacred that falsehood may appear.

  George H. Smith

  Men, Atheism, May

  George H. Smith (2010). “Atheism: The Case Against God”, p.10, Prometheus Books

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• People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that the objects themselves are sacred, not just the stories they tell. We believe that books possess the power to transubstantiate, to turn darkness into light, to make being out of nothingness.

  Joe Queenan

  Believe, Book, Light

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• Sacred Activism is the fusion of the mystic's passion for God with the activist's passion for justice, creating a third fire, which is the burning sacred heart that longs to help, preserve, and nurture every living thing.

  Andrew Harvey

  Passion, Heart, Creating

  Andrew Harvey (2012). “Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action”, p.490, North Atlantic Books

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