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• For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

  Plutarch

  Inspirational, Mind, Needs

  Plutarch (2006). “Essays”, p.70, Penguin UK

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• Every day brings a ship, Every ship brings a word; Well for those who have no fear, Looking seaward well assured That the word the vessel brings Is the word they wish to hear.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wish, Ships, No Fear

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.217

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• I am God's vessel. But my greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.

  Kanye West

  Pain, Conceited, Rapper

  "Does Kanye West Believe He’s God?" by Smokey Fontaine, theurbandaily.cassiuslife.com. March 3, 2009.

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• There's an inherent limit to the stress that any material can bear. Water has its boiling point, metals their melting points. The elements of the spirit behave the same way. Happiness can reach a pitch so great that any further happiness can't be felt. Pain, despair, humiliation, disgust, and fear are no different. Once the vessel is full, the world can't add to it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Pain, Stress, Water

  Stefan Zweig (2008). “The Post-office Girl”, New York Review of Books

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• In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. "Pursue peace," the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, War, Space

  Speech at Civic Auditorium, Seattle, Washington, www.presidency.ucsb.edu. September 06, 1960.

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• Our bodies are just temporary vessels for our souls, which will go on forever. You really are an extension of the power that created the whole universe, no matter what drags you have on.

  RuPaul

  Forever, Soul, Goes On

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• There may be troubled waters along the many paths my life shall take, but only I as a man, may keep my vessel afloat, and guide myself straight.

  Robert M. Hensel

  Life, Perseverance, Men

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• Woman is the most superstitious animal beneath the moon. When a woman has a premonition that Tuesday will be a disaster, to which a man pays no heed, he will very likely lose his fortune then. This is not meant to be an occult or mystic remark. The female body is a vessel, and the universe drops its secrets into her far more quickly than it communicates them to the male.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Moon, Men, Animal

  Edward Dahlberg (1965). “Reasons of the heart”

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• This relationship is the vessel wherein is nurtured the life force of both individuals, whereby they create the future of the human race in body and thought.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Marriage, Race, Body

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• Though we may feel we are "like a broken vessel," as the Psalmist says (Psalms 31:12), we must remember, that vessel is in the hands of the divine potter. Broken minds can be healed just the way broken bones and broken hearts are healed. While God is at work making those repairs, the rest of us can help by being merciful, nonjudgmental, and kind.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Heart, Hands, Broken

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• Knowledge is an excellent drug; but no drug has virtue enough to preserve itself from corruption and decay, if the vessel be tainted and impure wherein it is put to keep.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Knowledge, Drug, Decay

  Michel de Montaigne (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Michel de Montaigne (Illustrated)”, p.339, Delphi Classics

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• We never know who they are that God will draw, and have nothing to do with it. Our duty is to invite all, and leave it to God to choose the vessels of mercy.

  J. C. Ryle

  Mercy, Duty, Gods Will

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• Difficulties and obstacles are God's challenges to faith. When hindrances confront us in the path of duty, we are to recognize them as vessels for faith to fill with the fullness and all-sufficiency of Jesus.

  A. B. Simpson

  Jesus, Challenges, Path

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• Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body. But the truth is that there is no surface of the body independent of its interior. It's obvious that the outside of the body is always connected to the inside, to thought processes and to an internal anatomy.

  Valie Export

  Independent, Thinking, Focus

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ‎"I look upon this world as a wrecked vessel. God has given me a lifeboat and said, 'Moody, save all you can.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Looks, World, Said

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• I beseech Christ for this one thing only, that He will enable me to endure all things courageously, and that He break me as a potter’s vessel or make me strong, as it pleases Him.

  Huldrych Zwingli

  Strong, Potters, Christ

  "Huldreich Zwingli, the Reformer of German Switzerland, 1484-1531". Book by Samuel Macauley Jackson, p.148-149, 1901.

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• The supreme application of human attention is to be a vessel to carry awe.

  Etsko Schuitema

  Attention, Awe, Application

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• The fact is, we are leaky vessels, and we have to keep right under the fountain all the time to keep full of Christ, and so have fresh supply.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Facts, Christ, Fountain

  Dwight L Moody (2001). “The Secret of Success in the Christian Life”, p.36, Moody Publishers

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• Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

  Eli Roth

  Real, Doe, Culture

  "Filmmaker Eli Roth returns for another 'Last Exorcism'". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. February 28, 2013.

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• When I am in charge of a vessel, I always command; nobody commands but me. I take all the responsibility, all the risks, all the hardships that my office would call upon me to take. I do not steer by any man's compass but my own.

  Michael A. Healy

  Military, Responsibility, Men

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• And the over-all fact that you are a frail vessel full of errors.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Errors, Self, Frail

  "The First Circle".

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• Go with the pain, let it take you. Open your palms and your body to the pain. It comes in waves like the tide and you must be open as a vessel lying on the beach, letting it fill you up and then, retreating, leaving you empty and clear.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Beach, Pain, Lying

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1981). “War within and without: diaries and letters of Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1939-1944”, Berkley

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• We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed.

  Nikola Tesla

  Distance, Moving, Sea

  Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.123, Courier Dover Publications

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• I don't have a religious bone in my body but I believe artists (of any medium), in our best selves, are vessels of truth.

  Michael Hyatt

  Religious, Believe, Artist

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Japanese were alerted to the fact that American carriers were nearby.

  Jack Adams

  Air, Facts, Made

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