"I know that a creed is the shell…" — Amy Lowell
"I know that a creed is the shell of a lie."
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37 Quotes by Amy Lowell
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How much more beautiful is the moon, Slanting down the gauffered branches of a plum-tree; The moon Wavering across a…
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Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.
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Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.
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Youth condemns; maturity condones
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Even pain pricks to livelier living.
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Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease.
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A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.
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Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.
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Happiness: We rarely feel it. I would buy it, beg it, steal it, Pay in coins of dripping blood For…
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Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.
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Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.
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If what we worship fail us, still the fire burns on, and it is much to have believed.
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More Creed Quotes
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A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve the…
— Irving Babbitt
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As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As…
— Saint Basil
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Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Empty-brained triflers who have never tried to think, who take their creed as they take their fashions, speak of atheism…
— Annie Besant
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No matter who you are, no matter what your color, creed, how you choose to pray or who you choose…
— Cory Booker
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If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we…
— George Aiken
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The poetic notion of infinity is far greater than that which is sponsored by any creed.
— Joseph Brodsky
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I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.
— Charlotte Bronte
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The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science.
— Samuel Butler
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Red Letter Christians believe in the doctrines of the Apostle's Creed, are convinced that the Scriptures have been inspired by…
— Tony Campolo
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He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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