William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"It is a good divine that follows his own instructions."
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Palaces
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George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace."
C. S. Lewis
Writer, Scholar
"You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself"
Grant Morrison
Comic Book Writer, Novelist
"There's a palace in your head, boy. Learn to live in it always."
Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"Let us remember that within us there is a palace of immense magnificence."
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"Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace; take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil smelling-place."
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"It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin."
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"Where life is possible at all, a right life is possible; life in a palace is possible; therefore even in a palace a right life is possible."
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"In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives."
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"The dome of thought, the palace of the soul."
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"You know, the streets are filled with vipers Who've lost all ray of hope You know, it ain't even safe no more In the palace of the Pope"
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"It is best to meet in a cul-de-sac, A palace of velvet With windows of mirrors. There one is safe, There are no family photographs, No rings through the nose, no cries."
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"Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines."
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"As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries."
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"Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world."
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"Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace"
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"Why don’t you try wandering with me to the Palace of Not-Even-Anything"
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"When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash."
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"You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer."
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"When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace."
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"I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse."
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"I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!"
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"Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?"
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"You cannot make a cheap palace."
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"If you want to live, go back to Christ. You are not Christians. Go back to Christ. Go back to him who had nowhere to lay his head. Better be ready to live in rags with Christ than to live in palaces without him."
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