Quotations About / On: ANGEL

  • 41.
    The garden flew round with the angel,
    The angel flew round with the clouds,
    And the clouds flew round and the clouds few round
    And the clouds flew round with the clouds.
    (Wallace Stevens (1879-1955), U.S. poet. "The Pleasures of Merely Circulating.")
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  • 42.
    The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and of love, renders the fulfilment of duties less wearisome, sorrows less bitter. The only pure joys unmixed with sadness which it is given to man to taste upon earth are, thanks to this angel, the joys of the Family.
    (Giuseppe Mazzini (1805-1872), Italian nationalist leader. The Duties of Man, ch. 6 (1844-1858, trans. 1907).)
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  • 43.
    There's that popular misconception of man as something between a brute and an angel. Actually man is in transit between brute and God.
    (Norman Mailer (b. 1923), U.S. author. Gen. Edward Cummings, in The Naked and the Dead, pt. 1, ch. 11, Rinehart (1948). in conversation with Lt. Robert Hearn.)
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  • 44.
    As for your friend, my prospective reader, I hope he ignores Fort Sumter, and "Old Abe," and all that; for that is just the most fatal, and, indeed, the only fatal weapon you can direct against evil ever; for, as long as you know of it, you are particeps criminis. What business have you, if you are an "angel of light," to be pondering over the deeds of darkness, reading the New York Herald, and the like.
    (Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862), U.S. philosopher, author, naturalist. Letter, April 10, 1861, to Parker Pillsbury, in The Writings of Henry David Thoreau, vol. 6, p. 378, Houghton Mifflin (1906).)
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  • 45.
    He shall not die, by G—, cried my uncle Toby.
    MThe ACCUSING SPIRIT which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blush'd as he gave it in;—and the RECORDING ANGEL as he wrote it down, dropp'd a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.
    (Laurence Sterne (1713-1768), British author, clergyman. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1762), vol. 6, ch. 8, eds. Melvyn New and Joan New, University of Florida Press (1978).)
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  • 46.
    Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on.
    Sir, as I have a soul, she is an angel.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. 2nd Gentleman, in Henry VIII, act 4, sc. 1, l. 43. On seeing Anne Bullen, now crowned as Queen.)
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  • 47.
    Do not all charms fly
    At the mere touch of cold philosophy?
    There was an awful rainbow once in heaven:
    We know her woof, her texture; she is given
    In the dull catalogue of common things.
    Philosophy will clip an angel's wings,
    Conquer all mysteries by rule and line,
    Empty the haunted air, and gnomed mine
    Unweave a rainbow.
    (John Keats (1795-1821), British poet. Lamia, pt. 2, l. 229-37, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes and Other Poems (1820).)
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  • 48.
    For every man that Bolingbroke hath pressed
    To lift shrewd steel against our golden crown,
    God for his Richard hath in heavenly pay
    A glorious angel. Then if angels fight,
    Weak men must fall; for heaven still guards the right.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. King Richard, in Richard II, act 3, sc. 2, l. 58-62. Trying to comfort himself.)
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  • 49.
    ... to be scared is such a release from all the logy weight of procrastination, of dallying and pokiness! You burn into work. It is as though gravity were removed and you walked lightly to the moon like an angel.
    (Brenda Ueland (1891-1985), U.S. magazine writer. Me, ch. 6 (1939). On overcoming lethargy and a tendency to procrastinate when, having decided to divorce her husband, she was suddenly faced with the need to support herself and her baby daughter.)
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  • 50.
    Happy those early days! when I
    Shined in my angel-infancy.
    Before I understood this place
    Appointed for my second race,
    Or taught my soul to fancy aught
    But a white, celestial thought;
    (Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. The Retreat (l. 1-6). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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