#divinity

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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I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can... But I still believe in peace, love and understanding. ↗

— John Lennon

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I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. ↗

— William Temple

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The correct description is that we try every day to become more humble when we talk about divinity, we try to realize how little we know and how open minded we should be. ↗

— John Templeton

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Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter. ↗

— Charles Lindbergh

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After all, it is the divinity within that makes the divinity without; and I have been more fascinated by a woman of talent and intelligence, though deficient in personal charms, than I have been by the most regular beauty. ↗

— Washington Irving

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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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It is divinity that shapes, not only your ends, but also your acts, your words and thoughts. ↗

— Swami Sivananda

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The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only matter in spontaneous motion; and, most grievous word of all, that what men call their souls die with the death of the body, as music dies when the strings are broken. ↗

— John Lothrop Motley

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[Man] is ... a living plume of fire, raying out upon the world the Divine Love which fills his heart. ↗

— Jiddu Krisnamurti

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