"There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed."
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"In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped."
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"The money-changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization. We may now restore that temple to the ancient truths."
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"As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity."
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"If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it."
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"What if sometimes there is no choice about what to love? What if the temple comes to Mohammed? What if you just love? without deciding? You just do: you see her and in that instant are lost to sober account-keeping and cannot choose but to love?"
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"Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court."
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"Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand."
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"A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide."
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"In strict science, all persons underlie the same condition of an infinite remoteness. Shall we fear to cool our love by mining forthe metaphysical foundation of this elysian temple? Shall I not be as real as the things I see? If I am, I shall not fear to know them for what they are."
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"To go and see one druidical temple is only to see that it is nothing, for there is neither art nor power in it; and seeing one is quite enough."
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"Building a temple didn't mean you believed in gods, it just meant you believed in architecture."
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"In truth, the laboratory is the forecourt of the temple of philosophy, and whoso has not offered sacrifices and undergone purification there has little chance of admission into the sanctuary."
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"Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them."
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"To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence."
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"It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples."
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"It depends on what you mean by the word religion. Certainly I don't go to temples and pray to the gods or anything like that."
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"The mind is not, I know, a highway, but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open."
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"No temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visitors."
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"No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by."
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