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Letter "C" » celestial
«Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial»
«Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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Love
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atmosphere, breathing, breathings, celestial, paradise, paradises, portion, portion out
«PREHISTORIC, adj. Belonging to an early period and a museum. Antedating the art and practice of perpetuating falsehood.He lived in a period prehistoric, When all was absurd and phantasmagoric. Born later, when Clio, celestial recorded, Set down great events in succession and order, He surely had seen nothing droll or fortuitous In anything here but the lies that she threw at us. --Orpheus Bowen»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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antedate, antedated, antedating, art museums, belonging, Bowen, celestial, Clio, droll, fortuitous, Orpheus, perpetuating, phantasmagoric, prehistoric, recorded, set down, succession, threw
«My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word? The Stars that stated come to Town Esteemed Me never rude Although to their Celestial Call I failed to make reply? My constant?reverential Face Sufficient Courtesy.»
Author: Emily Dickinson
(Poet)
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acquaintances, celestial, courtesy, esteemed, reply, reverential, rude, spoke, stated
«Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.»
«I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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balconies, balcony, breath of fresh air, celestial, comma, commas, Fresh Air, intermission, intermissions, semicolon, semicolons, take a breath, think up, toilet
«Let us be patient! These severe afflictions, Not from the ground arise; But oftentimes celestial benedictions, Assume this dark disguise»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
afflictions, benediction, benedictions, celestial, disguise, oftentimes
«Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.»
«Lord fills my household with celestial peace and bliss»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
| Keywords:
celestial
«I do and I must reverence human nature. I bless it for its kind affections. I honor it for its achievements in science and art, and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue. These are marks of a divine origin and the pledges of a celestial inheritance; and I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
bound up, celestial, examples, human origin, pledges, saintly
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