Venerable Quotes
73 quotes by 61 authors
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You asked for a loving God: you have one... The consuming fire Himself, the Love that made the worlds, persistent as the artist's love for…
— C.S. Lewis
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Slowly he took out the clothes in which, ten years beforem Cosette had left Montfermeil; first the little dress, then the black scarf, then the…
— Victor Hugo
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What should I possibly have to tell you, oh venerable one? Perhaps that you're searching far too much? That in all that searching, you don't…
— Hermann Hesse
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Vanity, right?" Nash reappeared in the living room with an open bag of potato chips. "I nominate my venerable brother. He likes to play hero,…
— Rachel Vincent
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Bread, milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.
— Leigh Hunt
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I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour,…
— Barry Eisler
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Will you permit the sacred fire of liberty, brought by your fathers from the venerable temples of Britain, to be quenched and trodden out on…
— Joseph Howe
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In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the…
— John Strachan
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As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding…
— John Strachan
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If you wish to spare yourself and your venerable family, give heed to my advice with the ear of intelligence. If you do not, you…
— Hulagu Khan
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Gentlemen have talked a great deal of patriotism. A venerable word, when duly practised.
— Robert Walpole
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I have heard the venerable and impassioned orator on the camp meeting stand rehearse the story of the crucifixion, and seen the thousands there weep…
— John Wesley Powell
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