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| Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out. | Arthur Schopenhauer | 1788-1860, German Philosopher |
| If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The ANGELS of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos. | Prince of Wales Charles | 1948-, Duke of Edinburgh, Son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip |
| It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by ANGELS or by demons, heaven or hell. | Buddha | 568-488 BC, Founder of Buddhism |
| If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten ANGELS swearing I was right would make no difference. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| All I am, or can be, I owe to my angel mother. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. | Abraham Lincoln | 1809-1865, Sixteenth President of the USA |
| Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the ANGELS are debating the best way to use it. | Alan Valentine | |
| A man does not have to be an angel in order to be a saint. | Albert Schweitzer | 1875-1965, German Born Medical Missionary, Theologian, Musician, and Philosopher |
| Men would be ANGELS, ANGELS would be gods. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Fools rush in where ANGELS fear to tread. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
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| Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be ANGELS, ANGELS would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if ANGELS fell; aspiring to be ANGELS men rebel. | Alexander Pope | 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator |
| Spirit of place! It is for this we travel, to surprise its subtlety; and where it is a strong and dominant angel, that place, seen once, abides entire in the memory with all its own accidents, its habits, its breath, its name. | Alice Meynell | 1847-1922, British Poet, Essayist |
| I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the ANGELS instead of the higher primates. | Angela Carter | 1940-1992, British Author |
| The question is this -- Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the ANGELS. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories. | Benjamin Disraeli | 1804-1881, British Statesman, Prime Minister |
| Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained ANGELS. [Hebrews 13:2] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Take care that you do not despise one of these little ones; for I tell you, in heaven their ANGELS continually see the face of my Father. [Matthew 18:10] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Though I speak with the tongues of men and ANGELS and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the ANGELS of God in heaven. [Matthew 22:30] | Bible | Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism |
| Christians should never fail to sense the operation of an angelic glory. It forever eclipses the world of demonic powers, as the sun does a candle's light. | Billy Graham | 1918-, American Evangelist |
| Were we as eloquent as ANGELS we still would please people much more by listening rather than talking. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
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| Of all the marvellous works of God, perhaps the one ANGELS view with the most supreme astonishment, is a proud man. | Charles Caleb Colton | 1780-1832, British Sportsman Writer |
| Tennessee Williams said if he got rid of his demons, he would lose his ANGELS. | Dakin Williams | |
| It is dangerous to confuse children with ANGELS. | David Fyfe | 1900-1967, British Statesman, Jurist |
| Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel. | Doris Lessing | 1919-, British Novelist |
| The Saviour who wants to turn men into ANGELS is as much a hater of human nature as the totalitarian despot who wants to turn them into puppets. | Eric Hoffer | 1902-1983, American Author, Philosopher |
| People who are born even-tempered, placid and untroubled -- secure from violent passions or temptations to evil -- those who have never needed to struggle all night with the Angel to emerge lame but victorious at dawn, never become great saints. | Eva Le Gallienne | |
| The desire of excessive power caused the ANGELS to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. | Francis Bacon | 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman |
| Man's power of choice enables him to think like an angel or a devil, a king or a slave. Whatever he chooses, mind will create and manifest. | Frederick Bailes | |
| If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13. | Georg C. Lichtenberg | 1742-1799, German Physicist, Satirist |
| In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. | George Bernard Shaw | 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist |
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| The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the ANGELS come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. | George Eliot | 1819-1880, British Novelist |
| ANGELS fly because they take themselves lightly. | Gilbert K. Chesterton | 1874-1936, British Author |
| I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness. | Havelock Ellis | 1859-1939, British Psychologist |
| Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest! | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | 1819-1892, American Poet |
| Man was created a little lower than the ANGELS and has bin getting a little lower ever since. | Henry Wheeler Shaw | 1818-1885, American Humorist |
| When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart. | Horace Mann | 1796-1859, American Educator |
| We, who have already borne on the road to Paradise the lives of the best among us, want a difficult, erect, implacable Paradise; a Paradise where one can never rest and which has, beside the threshold of the gates, ANGELS with swords. | J. A. Primo De Rivera | 1903-1936, Spanish Falangist Politician |
| What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were ANGELS, no government would be necessary. If ANGELS were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. | James Madison | 1751-1836, American Statesman, President |
| Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free. | James Russell Lowell | 1819-1891, American Poet, Critic, Editor |
| Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death. | Jewish Proverb | Sayings of Jewish Origin |
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| I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his ANGELS thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his ANGELS, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. | John Donne | 1572-1632, British Metaphysical Poet |
| We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs. | John Keble | 1792-1866, British Anglican Clergyman, Poet |
| Ideologies have no heart of their own. They're the whores and ANGELS of our striving selves. | John Le Carre | |
| Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we awake. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| Tears such as ANGELS weep. | John Milton | 1608-1674, British Poet |
| Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. | Joseph Addison | 1672-1719, British Essayist, Poet, Statesman |
| Peace is the first thing the ANGELS sang. | Leo The Great | c.390-461, Pope from 440-461 |
| In Los Angeles, it's like they jog for two hours a day and then they think they're morally right. That's when you want to choke people, you know? | Liam Neeson | 1952-, British-born American Actor |
| The ANGELS were all singing out of tune, and hoarse with having little else to do, excepting to wind up the sun and moon or curb a runaway young star or two. | Lord Byron | 1788-1824, British Poet |
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