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"The more man becomes irradiated with the divinity of Christ, the more, not the less, truly he is man." »Phillips Brooks
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"Every man is a divinity in disguise, a God playing the fool." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"The soul has this proof of its divinity that divine things delight in it." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun." »Sir Thomas Browne
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"Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter." »Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
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"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself and can never be erased." »Alexander Hamilton
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"Necessity is the most powerful divinity the world knows--it is the result of physical forces set in operation by ethical forces." »Dr. Jose P. Rizal
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"Nor shall derision prove powerful against those who listen to humanity or those who follow in the footsteps of divinity, for they shall live forever. Forever." »Kahlil Gibran
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"This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers.... There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 5 scene 1
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"Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope." »Alexandre Dumas, Translation from "The Count of Monte Cristo"
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"One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding." »Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Three
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"Real religion should be something that liberates men [sic]. But churches don't want free men [sic] who can think for themselves and find their own divinity within. When a religion becomes organized it is no longer a religious experience but only superstition and estrangement." »Federico Fellini
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"To see a man fearless in dangers. untainted with lusts, happy in adversity, composed in a tumult, and laughing at all those things which are generally either coveted or feared, all men must acknowledge that this can be from nothing else but a beam of divinity that influences a mortal body." »Seneca
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"If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number?" No. "Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence?" No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion." »David Hume
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