Seville Quotes

• Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy.

  Isidore of Seville

  Faith, Christian, Hope

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• If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us.

  Isidore of Seville

  Men, Saint, Want

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• Seville is a tower full of fine archers.... Under the arch of the sky, across the clear plain, she shoots the constant arrow of her river.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Archer, Sky, Rivers

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• The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it.

  Christopher Columbus

  Clouds, Air, Wind

  Christopher Columbus (2012). “First Voyage to America: From the Log of the "Santa Maria"”, p.66, Courier Corporation

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• Thanks be to God, the air is soft as in April in Seville, and it is a pleasure to be in it, so fragrant it is.

  Christopher Columbus

  Air, April, Thanks

  "Journal of the First Voyage". Book by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Entry for October 08, 1492,

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• Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves under the tone of that harmony.

  Isidore of Seville

  Music, Heaven, Sound

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• People in Seville are very happy, the lifestyle here is very relaxed, you can walk everywhere; it's very easy.

  Paz Vega

  People, Easy, Lifestyle

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. February 19, 2007.

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• A man of Seville is shaved by the Barber of Seville if and only if the man does not shave himself. Does the barber shave himself?

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Ifs And, Doe

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• If you like your soccer cerebral, and the triumph ultimately to be wrung out of staying power, Milan was the place to be. If you love the uncertainty of teams that cannot defend yet have the courage to attack, attack, attack, then Seville was heaven... The common denominator between the victories of Arsenal and Fenerbache? The strength of mind, the courage to dare in another team's domain, the inner belief that is as much a part of sporting success as the skill a fellow may be born with.

  Robert Hughes

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• War with vices, but peace with individuals.

  Isidore of Seville

  War, Vices, Individual

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• I visited Eduardo Miura’s ranch in Seville where he raised bulls for bullfighting, and I was so impressed that by the time I got home I had already selected my future emblem.

  Ferruccio Lamborghini

  Home, Bullfighting, Bulls

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• To be here, is a dream come true. A dream is something that you set for yourself, not what other people set for you. When I qualified in Seville I burst into tears. I couldn't believe that I was going to the Olympic Games.

  Natalie du Toit

  Dream, Believe, Games

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• It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, which is formed from the breath; third is rhythmica, which receives its numbers from the beat of the fingers. For sound is produced either by the voice, coming through the throat; or by the breath, coming through the trumpet or tibia, for example; or by touch, as in the case of the cithara or anything else that gives a tuneful sound on being struck.

  Isidore of Seville

  Music, Voice, Numbers

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• Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish.

  Isidore of Seville

  Numbers, Measurement, All Things

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• Bullfighters are Seville's heroes.

  Paz Vega

  Hero

  The Scene Interview, www.cnn.com. February 19, 2007.

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• Number is divided into even and odd. Even number is divided into the following: evenly even, evenly uneven, and unevenly uneven. Odd number is divided into the following: prime and incomposite, composite, and a third intermediate class (mediocris) which in a certain way is prime and incomposite but in another way secondary and composite.

  Isidore of Seville

  Class, Numbers, Way

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• The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done not to excess, but 'little by little', paulatim. For nature is pained by surfeit but rejoices in moderation. Whence also those who take drugs and antidotes constantly, or to the point of saturation, are sorely vexed, for every immoderation brings not health but danger.

  Isidore of Seville

  Health, Names, Medicine

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• Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introduce words by the eye, not by the ear.

  Isidore of Seville

  Eye, Voice, Ears

  "An Encyclopedist of the Dark Ages: Isidore of Seville", by Ernest Brehaut New York: B. Franklin, 1964.

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• The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, the richer the harvest.

  Isidore of Seville

  Catholic, Understanding, Utterance

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• We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's apostles as authorities, who did not themselves of their own wills choose anything of what they wanted to believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations, the teachings of Christ.

  Isidore of Seville

  Teaching, Believe, Catholic

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• Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer.

  Isidore of Seville

  Men, Baptism, Christ

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• In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now purified mental gaze, pass on to the contemplation of the Divine Light.

  Isidore of Seville

  Men, Contemplative Life, Light

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• There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

  Hernando Cortes

  Church, Towers, Body

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• Seville never had a rich chess tradition. Valencia is entirely different, it is enough to say that one of the city squares is named after me.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Squares, Cities, Different

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