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«Our young people have come to look upon war as a kind of beneficent deity, which not only adds to the national honor but uplifts a nation and develops patriotism and courage. That is all true. But it is only fair, too, to let them know that the garments of the deity are filthy and that some of her influences debase and befoul a people.»
Author: Rebecca Harding Davis
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«Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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deity, field, green, inspired, nearest, needful, page, revelation, Revelation of
«Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.»
«I can find no room in my cosmos for a deity save as a waste product of human weakness, the excrement of the imagination»
«Impiety, n. Your irreverence toward my deity»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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deity, impieties, impiety, irreverence
«Man, like Deity, creates in his own image»
«It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.»
Author: Lord Byron
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absolution, altars, confession, deity, digestion, elegant, Greek mythology, incense, mythology, real presence, relic, relics, Shrines, swallow, the Greek, transubstantiation
«Perfect happiness I believe was never intended by the deity to be the lot of any one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as steadfastly believe»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Happiness
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approaches, deity, nearness, steadfastly
«Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.»
«Man disavows, and Deity disowns me: hell might afford my miseries a shelter; therefore hell keeps her ever-hungry mouths all bolted against me.»
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