"The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with……" — William Blake

"The ancient Poets animated all sensible objects with Gods or Geniuses, calling them by the names and adorning them with the properties of woods, rivers, mountains, lakes, cities, nations, and whatever their enlarged & numerous senses could perceive."

— William Blake

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More Adorning Quotes

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It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works. — Clement of Alexandria
May you become as the waves of one sea, stars of the same heaven, fruits adorning the same tree, roses… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
The soul should take care of the body, just as the pilgrim on his way to Makkah takes care of… — Al-Ghazali
To slaughter grand and beautiful creatures like these tuskers, whether terrestrial or marine, solely to obtain a few teeth indicates… — Paul Watson
What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast… — Walt Whitman
It is right to love beauty and to desire it; but God desires us to love and seek first the… — Ellen G. White
For a moment man is a boy, for a moment a lovesick youth, for a moment bereft of wealth, for… — Bhartrhari
Love like a phantoms lights but hold in the heart, it builds like the empty smile adorning a statue with… — Dan Fogelberg
Say: o brethren! Let deeds, not words, be your adorning. — BahÃ¡'u'llÃ¡h
Dearer to me than the evening star A Packard car A Hershey bar Or a bride in her rich adorning… — Jean Kerr
If, for example, I saw my grandparents or my daughter for an instant, would I recognize them? Probably not, because… — Isabel Allende
The year's in wane; There is nothing adorning; The night has no eve, And the day has no morning; Cold… — Thomas Hood

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