"Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of……" — Katharine Lee Bates
"Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history."
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Katharine Lee Bates
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10 Quotes by Katharine Lee Bates
Katharine Lee Bates has 10 quotes on this site.
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O beautiful for spacious skies, . . . O beautiful for heroes proved In liberating strife, Who more than self…
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Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.
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America! America! God shed His grace on thee.
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It is the hour to rend thy chains, The blossom time of souls.
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The habit of begging, that plague of tourist resorts, is an incessant nuisance on the Alhambra hill.
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A typical Seville shop reaches far along the street front, with many open doors, and a counter running the full…
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Spanish children are too often ill-cared for, but despite the abuses of ignorant motherhood and fatherhood, such vivid, vivacious, bewitching…
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A taste for the best reading is not cultivated in Spanish girls, even where the treasures of that great Castilian…
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The life of Liverpool is commerce; it is a city of warehouses and shops.
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Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
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Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
— John James Audubon
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All…
— Saint Augustine
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If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than…
— Richard Bach
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Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.
— Tyra Banks
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All the choir of heaven and furniture of earth - in a word, all those bodies which compose the frame…
— George Berkeley
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The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live.
— Mortimer Adler
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The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and…
— Annie Besant
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When you read about a car crash in which two or three youngsters are killed, do you pause to dwell…
— Jim Bishop
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On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off…
— Erma Bombeck
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Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies.…
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