Incense Quotes
66 quotes by 57 authors
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What, for some, is sin, others do to the glory of God. And the good Dr. Pentecost's remarks notwithstanding , I intend to go home…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to…
— Claudia Roden
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The Holy Night We sate among the stalls at Bethlehem; The dumb kine from their fodder turning them, Softened their horned faces To almost human…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Where shall we get religion? Beneath the open sky, the sphere of crystal silence surcharged with deity.. The midnight earth sends incense up, sweet with…
— Sam Walter Foss
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My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put…
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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I take a baths all the time. I'll put on some music and burn some incense and just sit in the tub and think, Wow,…
— Brian Austin Green
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Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.…
— John Harvey Kellogg
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The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .
— Benjamin Disraeli
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At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all…
— Prem Prakash
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Oh! none are so absorb'd, as not to feel Sweet thoughts like music coming o'er the mind: When prayer, the purest incense of a soul,…
— Robert Montgomery
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I plant rosemary all over the garden, so pleasant is it to know that at every few steps one may draw the kindly branchlets through…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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But as a skeptic I am dubious about science as about everything else, unless the scientist is himself a skeptic, and few of them are.…
— Robertson Davies
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. . . the fools of this world prefer to look for sages far away. They don't believe that the wisdom of their own mind…
— Bodhidharma
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It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence,…
— Lord Byron
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Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in…
— Thomas Hood
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The green earth sends her incense up. From many a mountain shrine; From folded leaf and dewey cup She pours her sacred wine.
— John Greenleaf Whittier
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I sing the sweets I know, the charms I feel, my morning incense, and my evening meal, the sweets of hasty pudding.
— Joel Barlow
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I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.
— John Keats
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Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.
— Amelia Earhart
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I loved every second of Catholic church. I loved the sickly sweet rotting-pomegranate smells of the incense. I loved the overwrought altar, the birdbath of…
— Anne Lamott
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