"'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the……" — Annie Besant
"'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth."
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Annie Besant
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122 Quotes by Annie Besant
Annie Besant has 122 quotes on this site.
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Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.
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Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience…
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Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the…
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Quick condemnation of all that is not ours, of views with which we disagree, of ideas that do not attract…
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No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life…
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The generous wish to share with all what is precious, to spread broadcast priceless truths, to shut out none from…
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What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That…
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An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who…
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Islam believes in many prophets, and Al Quran is nothing but a confirmation of the old Scriptures.
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It is not monogamy when there is one legal wife, and mistresses out of sight.
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More Anniversary Quotes
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one of 303 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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True love stories never have endings.
— Richard Bach
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Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life.
— Richard Bach
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One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
— Honore de Balzac
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So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.
— Anne Bancroft
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Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can't help but smile on…
— Josh Billings
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Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
— Emily Bronte
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You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.
— Robert Browning
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A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express…
— Pearl S. Buck
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When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you're sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.
— Joseph Campbell
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
— Thomas Carlyle
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