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• Morn on the waters, and purple and bright Bursts on the billows the flushing of light O'er the glad waves, like a child of the sun, See the tall vessel goes gallantly on.

  Thomas Kibble Hervey

  Children, Purple, Light

  Thomas Kibble Hervey (1829). “The poetical sketch-book, including a 3rd ed. of Australia”, p.8

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• Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

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• The Christian world, I discovered, was like the captain and crew of a vessel on the ocean without a compass, and tossed to and fro whithersoever the wind listed to blow them. When the light came to me, I saw that all the so-called Christian world was grovelling in darkness

  Brigham Young

  Christian, Ocean, Blow

  Brigham Young (1858). “Journal of Discourses”, p.73

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• God has chosen little nations as the vessels by which He carries His choicest wines to the lips of humanity to rejoice their hearts, to exalt their vision, to strengthen their faith, and if we had stood by when two little nations [Belgium and Serbia] were being crushed and broken by the brutal hands of barbarians, our shame would have rung down the everlasting ages.

  David Lloyd George

  War, Heart, Wine

  "The Great War". David Lloyd George's Speech delivered at the Queen's Hall, London, September 19, 1914.

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• Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater - no, nothing, nothing!

  John Vianney

  Attachment, Soul, Body

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• Men are suppressing woman politically, philosophically, socially, through denying them education, equal rights, equal employment, and just by setting up a description of the world in which a woman views herself as a vessel, as someone who's only there to have children, as someone who can't succeed, even spiritually.

  Frederick Lenz

  Children, Women, Views

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• Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.

  Rubin Carter

  Hurt, Hatred, Soul

  "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter still fighting long after boxing days pass" by Eliott C. McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. February 26, 2011.

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• The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will propel us forward in a spirit of expectant curiosity. We will place our trust not only in the Whole but also in our own species' capacity to serve as the vessel through which the evolutionary impulse is most active at this time.

  Michael Dowd

  Epic, Journey, Confusion

  Michael Dowd (2008). “Thank God for Evolution: How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World”, p.260, Penguin

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• Women under phallocratic rule are confined to the role of vessels/carriers, directed and controlled by men. Since that role is the basic base reversal of the very be-ing of Voyaging/Spiraling women, when we direct our own Crafts/Vessels we become reversers of that deadly reversal.

  Mary Daly

  Men, Crafts, Roles

  "Gyn/ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism (New Intergalactic Introduction)". Book by Mary Daly, revised edition (p. 26), 1990.

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• The confusion of spirit and body is quite understandable in a culture where spirit is concretized in magnificent skyscrapers, where cathedrals have become museums for tourists, where woman-flesh-devil are associated, and nature is raped for any deplorable excuse. Dieting with fierce will-power is the masculine route; dieting with love of her own nature is the feminine. Her only real hope is to care for her own body and experience it as the vessel through which her Self may be born.

  Marion Woodman

  Real, Museums, Self

  "The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter". Book by Marion Woodman, 1980.

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• Thou and I are but the blind instruments of some irresistible fatality, that hurries us along, like goodly vessels driving before the storm, which are dashed against each other, and so perish.

  Walter Scott

  Storm, Driving, Blind

  Sir Walter Scott (1855). “The waverly novels”, p.595

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• Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows, While proudly rising o'er the azure realm In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.

  Thomas Gray

  Blow, Laughing, Rising

  'The Bard' (1757) l. 71

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• What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit.

  George Eliot

  Opportunity, Air, Satisfaction

  George Eliot (1858). “Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.24

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• And the works that endure and will endure for ever, the great masterpieces, cannot have come into being as humanity... imagines. Man is only the vessel into which is poured what "nature in general" wants to express.

  Anton Webern

  Men, Humanity, Want

  Anton Webern (1975). “The path to the new music”, European Amer Music Dist Corp

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• For me, whether or not a film has some kind of massive budget or is an independent film, or however it's getting made, it's always about the filmmaker and, hopefully, being a vessel for the filmmaker's vision. That's what really attracts me to projects.

  Bryce Dallas Howard

  Independent, Vision, Kind

  Source: collider.com

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• And oft I thought (my fancy was-so strong) That I, at last, a resting-place had found: 'Here: will I dwell,' said I,' my whole life long, Roaming the illimitable waters round; Here will I live, of all but heaven disowned. And end my days upon the peaceful flood - To break my dream the vessel reached its bound; And homeless near a thousand homes I stood, And near a thousand tables pined and wanted food.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Strong, Home

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.20

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• Sisters define their rivalry in terms of competition for the gold cup of parental love. It is never perceived as a cup which runneth over, rather a finite vessel from which the more one sister drinks, the less is left over for the others.

  Elizabeth Fishel

  Friendship, Competition, Gold

  Elizabeth Fishel (1997). “Sisters: Shared Histories, Lifelong Ties”, Red Wheel

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• Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel.

  John Dryden

  Spring, Hands, Mind

  John Dryden (1866). “Poetical Works: With a Memoir”, p.186

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• It was in the days when France's power was already broken upon the seas, and when more of her three-deckers lay rotting in the Medway than were to be found in Brest harbour. But her frigates and corvettes still scoured the ocean, closely followed ever by those of her rival. At the uttermost ends of the earth these dainty vessels, with sweet names of girls or of flowers, mangled and shattered each other for the honour of the four yards of bunting which flapped from the end of their gaffs.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Girl, Sweet, Ocean

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.6881, Delphi Classics

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• The Talmud tells a story about a great Rabbi who is dying, he has become a goses, but he cannot die because outside all his students are praying for him to live and this is distracting to his soul. His maidservant climbs to the roof of the hut where the Rabbi is dying and hurls a clay vessel to the ground. The sound diverts the students, who stop praying. In that moment, the Rabbi dies and his soul goes to heaven. The servant, too, the Talmud says, is guaranteed her place in the world to come.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Heaven, Soul, Dying

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• Emptie vessels sound most.

  George Herbert

  Sound

  "Jacula Prudentum; or Outlandish Proverbs, Sentences, &c. Selected by Mr. George Herbert". Book compiled by George Herbert et al., 1651.

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• What we are saying is we have to be smart about the ideology that is putting this idea into the world that a woman must be defined by her idea of modesty, that she is the vessel for honor in a community. And I believe that we have to be very pragmatic, too, about the consequence of this. Women in Iran and Saudi Arabia are jailed, punished and harassed if they don't cover themselves legally, according to the standard of those countries. So the consequences for many women is oftentimes very dark.

  Asra Nomani

  Country, Smart, Believe

  "The Case Against Wearing Hijab To Support Muslim Women". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Broken, Black, Capacity

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• Take advantage of this human boat;
  Free yourself from sorrow's mighty stream!
  This vessel will be later hard to find.
  The time that you have now, you fool, is not for sleep!

  Shantideva

  Wisdom, Sleep, Sorrow

  Shantideva (2007). “The Way of the Bodhisattva”, p.99, Shambhala Publications

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• Though some may have more than others, yet every one hath his load, as much as he can carry. Every vessel cannot bear up with the like sail, and therefore God, to keep us from oversetting, puts on so much as will safest bring us to heaven, our desired port.

  Ezekiel Hopkins

  God, Heaven, May

  Ezekiel Hopkins (bp. of Derry) (1867). “The Works of Ezekiel Hopkins: Successively Bishop of Raphoe and Derry”, p.50

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