"We are disgusted by gossip; yet it is of importance to keep the angels in their proprieties."
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"Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses."
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"When Pococke inquired of Grotius, where the proof was of that story of the pigeon, trained to pick peas from Mahomet's (Muhammad's) ear, and pass for an angel dictating to him? Grotius answered that there was no proof!"
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"Angels are endowed with the noblest created Attributes. They are endowed with wonderful Power. This perfection of Angels is forcibly indicated by the fact that the name Power, or Might, is in several places given to them in the Gospel. No stronger testimony of their high possession of this attribute can be conveyed by a single word; for it is a direct declaration that their nature is power itself."
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"I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother."
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"It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass."
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"He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal."
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"Angels dance only with You, Beloved and only before You do I bow in adoration. You may accept me or not but I will be at your feet forever."
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"One day you will take me completely out of myself, I'll do what the angels cannot do. Your eyelash will write on my cheek the poem that hasn't been thought of."
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"When I die, I shall soar with angels, and when I die to the angels, what I shall become you cannot imagine."
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"I think God has me on a path. I think he puts certain people in my life, and angels send messages to me, like, Kanye, I want you to say this, and I want you to say that, and I want you to talk to this girl here, and I don't want you to do this over here."
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"It must be recess in (heaven) if St. Peter is lettin his angels out."
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"If human love hath power to penetrate the veil--and hath it not?--then there are yet living here a few who have the blessedness of knowing that an angel loves them."
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"The children of the poor are so apt to look as if the rich would have been over-blest with such! Alas for the angel capabilities, interrupted so soon with care, and with after life so sadly unfulfilled."
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"A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by."
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"When angels go bad they are worse than anyone else. Remember Lucifer used to be an angel."
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"The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall."
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"I should warn you, I’m an expert on vampires. I’ve seen every episode made of Buffy, Angel, and Forever Knight, so don’t think a little fang-flashing is going to scare me.” – Nell to Adrian Oh, my God! You bit me on the leg! You drank my blood! I am not an appetizer!” You are much more then an appetizer. You are a twelve-course banquet. – Nell & Adrian I slid my tongue around the glossy enamel of his teeth, pausing to stroke down the length of an elongated canine tooth. Yeah. I know. How stupid is it to French kiss a vampire and not expect sharp teeth? – Nell"
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"I wonder what becomes of lost opportunities? Perhaps our guardian angel gathers them up as we drop them, and will give them back to us in the beautiful sometime when we have grown wiser, and learned how to use them rightly."
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"Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music."
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