#divinity

Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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There is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. ↗

— Herman Melville

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The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

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It is extremely difficult for a Jew to be converted, for how can he bring himself to believe in the divinity of - another Jew? ↗

— Heinrich Heine

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Even if I accepted that Jesus - like almost every other prophet on record - was born of a virgin, I cannot think that this proves the divinity of his father or the truth of his teachings. The same would be true if I accepted that he had been resurrected. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

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Scholastic learning and polemical divinity retarded the growth of all true knowledge. ↗

— David Hume

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If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature. ↗

— Bruce Barton

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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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We believe in the dignity of every life, the possibility of every mind, the divinity of every soul. This is our true North. ↗

— Elizabeth Dole

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The Divinity could be invoked as well in the English language as in the French. ↗

— Wilfrid Laurier

#divinity #english #english language #french #invoked