“And entreating his exalted weight,
Under the stars, saints he planted.”
Book of Taliesin (c. 1275?), The Elegy of the Thousand Sons
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“He could whip his weight in wildcats.”
Modjesky as Cameel http://www.amherst.edu/~rjyanco94/literature/eugenefield/poems/westernandotherverse/modjeskyascameel.html, st. 10
A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)
“The saints are like the stars, who, in His providence, Christ hides under a seal, lest they appear whenever they wish. Instead, they are always ready to disembark from the quiet of contemplation into the works of mercy at the time decided upon by God, whenever their heart should hear the word of command.”
Stellae sunt sancti, quos Christus sub signaculo suae providentiae claudit, ne appareant quando velint, semper parati ad tempus a Deo statutum, ut, cum audierint aure cordis vocem iubentis, a secreto contemplationis egrediantur ad opera necessitatis.
Sermon for the Fifth Sunday after Easter (Part III: De Christi omnium scientia, par. 10)
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Pupils at Sais (1799)
Context: Over his own heart and his own thoughts he watched attentively. He knew not whither his longing was carrying him. As he grew up, he wandered far and wide; viewed other lands, other seas, new atmospheres, new rocks, unknown plants, animals, men; descended into caverns, saw how in courses and varying strata the edifice of the Earth was completed, and fashioned clay into strange figures of rocks. By and by, he came to find everywhere objects already known, but wonderfully mingled, united; and thus often extraordinary things came to shape in him. He soon became aware of combinations in all, of conjunctures, concurrences. Erelong, he no more saw anything alone. — In great variegated images, the perceptions of his senses crowded round him; he heard, saw, touched and thought at once. He rejoiced to bring strangers together. Now the stars were men, now men were stars, the stones animals, the clouds plants; he sported with powers and appearances; he knew where and how this and that was to be found, to be brought into action; and so himself struck over the strings, for tones and touches of his own.
“If Harry's wearing his cloak of invisibility, I guarantee he's not planting his wand.”
Radio From Hell (June 8, 2005)
“And Satan trembles when he sees
The weakest saint upon his knees.”
No. 29, "Exhortation to Prayer".
Olney Hymns (1779)
from The Lord's Prayer.
Context: The excellence of a thing is the end for which it was made; as of a star to give light, and of a plant to be fruitful. So the excellence of a Christian is to answer the end of his creation, which is to hallow God’s name, and live to that God by whom he lives.
