All philanthropy ... is only a savory fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer. This incense offering makes the air more… — Ellen Key Copy Share Image
As soon as I find myself in the presence of a rich man, I cannot help looking upon him as an exceptional… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
His smell—the scent of a demon, cinnamon incense, amber musk—wrapped around me, filled my lungs. I felt like I could breathe again,… — Lilith Saintcrow Copy Share Image
“The amount of perfume she had on was like a human sacrifice on Incense Night.” — Stephen Moles Copy Share Image
The library was a little old shaby place. Francie thought it was beautiful. The feeling she had about it was as good… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
There's a little book I'm thinking of writing - "Swan Song" is what I shall call it. The song of the dying.… — Maxim Gorky Copy Share Image
If upon this earth we ever have a glimpse of heaven,it is when we pass a home in winter, at night,and through… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I'm in awe of the universe, but I don't necessarily believe there's an intelligence or agent behind it. I do have a… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
The perfume of the flowers and of the bay tree are wafted on high, like incense. The birds sing sweet songs of… — William Wendt Copy Share Image
I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in… — Laura Esquivel Copy Share Image
The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Do you not see the hand of God, which gives harmony, light, and love to the world? Do not the mountains, in… — Leonid Andreyev Copy Share Image
But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding. — Joel Barlow Copy Share Image
Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were… — Thomas Chatterton Copy Share Image
Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth. — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
