And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.
The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.
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Marsilio Ficino
Eccolo! ” he exclaimed. At the same moment the ground gave way, and with a cry she fell out of the wood. Light and beauty enveloped her. She had fallen on to a little open terrace, which was covered with violets from end to end.“...
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E.m. Forster
Mr. Herriton, don’t — please, Mr. Herriton — a dentist. His father’s a dentist.” Philip gave a cry of personal disgust and pain. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>He shuddered all over, and edged away from his companion. A dentist! A dentist at Monteriano. A dentist in fairyland!...
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E.m. Forster
How can you fight stupidity effectively? The answer is simple: it’s not easy.
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Carl William Brown
Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have..undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It's because he doesn't care! He's in a room with a naked girl,...
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Elizabeth Gilbert
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.if you put people on a diet, they start thinking about food. Or if you make someone stop smoking, all they think about is cigarettes. It seems logical enough to me that if you tell a person he can't have sex, he's going to be...
I raised my hand and asked if God was a spirit. And he said yes, He was. So I asked if it was right that a spirit was different from a person because it didn't have a body, wasn't material. And when he agreed, I...
Guilo, although a lawyer, never lied; at least not to his friends.
Though everyone in the bar knew who he was, no one asked him about the death, though one old man did rustle his newspaper suggestively.
Perception of personal danger very often set people on the path of virtue.
