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• Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sweet, Cooking, Devil

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.99

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• As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense.
  [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum,
  Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

  Ovid

  God, Offering, Blood

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• No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can atone for lack of fire. Prayer ascends by fire. Flame gives prayer access as well as wings, acceptance as well as energy. There is no incense without fire; no prayer without flame.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Flower, Acceptance

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1976). "La necesidad de la oración", Baker Pub Group

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• ¿De dónde sacaremos la religión? Bajo el cielo abierto, la esfera de silencio cristalino cargada de deidad.. La tierra de medianoche envía incienso hacia arriba, dulce con el aliento de la oración -- Sal bajo la noche desnuda y consigue la religión allí.

  Sam Walter Foss

  Dulce, Oración, Noche

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• To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

  Russell Sherman

  Sweet, Hands, Play

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• Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Darkness, Essentials, Purpose

  Chronicles of Wasted Time: The Infernal Grove (1973).

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• I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
  The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

  Pico Iyer

  Rain, Sleep, Autumn

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• Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in years. If you hanker after worldly fame and practise not the Way, your labors are wrongfully applied and your energy is wasted. It is like unto burning an incense stick. However much its pleasing odor be admired, the fire that consumes is steadily burning up the stick.

  Buda Gautama

  Selfish, Fire, Years

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• Cuando la mente posee la realidad, se siente tranquila y alegre incluso sin música ni canciones, y produce una fragancia pura incluso sin incienso ni té.

  Zicheng Hong

  Música, Canción, Realidad

  Zicheng Hong, Tze-chiang Chao (1959). "Un jardín chino de serenidad: Epigramas de los "Discursos sobre las raíces vegetales" de la dinastía Ming"

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• Hace unos minutos todos los árboles estaban excitados, inclinándose ante la rugiente tormenta, agitándose, arremolinándose, agitando sus ramas en un glorioso entusiasmo como adoración. Pero aunque para el oído externo estos árboles están ahora en silencio, sus canciones nunca cesan.

  John Muir

  Canción, Árbol, Tragedia

  John Muir (2011). "Mi primer verano en la Sierra: Edición Ilustrada", p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Time, Sleep, Rooms

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• Hace unos minutos todos los árboles estaban excitados, inclinándose ante la rugiente tormenta, agitándose, arremolinándose, agitando sus ramas en un glorioso entusiasmo como adoración. Pero aunque para el oído externo estos árboles están ahora en silencio, sus canciones nunca cesan. Cada célula oculta palpita con música y vida, cada fibra se estremece como las cuerdas de un arpa, mientras el incienso fluye sin cesar de las campanas y las hojas del bálsamo. No es de extrañar que las colinas y arboledas fueran los primeros templos de Dios, y cuanto más se talan y tallan en catedrales e iglesias, más lejano y tenue parece el Señor mismo.

  John Muir

  Life, Song, Cutting

  John Muir (2011). "Mi primer verano en la Sierra: Edición Ilustrada", p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Es importante leer un libro, pero también sostener el libro, oler el libro... es perfume, es incienso, es el polvo de Egipto.

  Ray Bradbury

  Book, Egypt, Dust

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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 perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Writing, Years, Everyday

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• So will I build my altar in the fields, And the blue sky my fretted dome shall be, And the sweet fragrance that the wild flower yields Shall be the incense I will yield to thee.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Sweet, Flower, Sky

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1836). “Letters, Conversations and Recollections”, p.144

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• In the fall of 1988, I worshipped God in a Buddhist temple. As the smell of incense filled the air, I knelt before three images of the Buddha, feeling that the smoke could carry my prayers heavenward. It was for me a holy moment for I was certain that I was kneeling on holy ground....I will not make any further attempt to convert the Buddhist, the Jew, the Hindu or the Moslem. I am content to learn from them and to walk with them side by side toward the God who lives, I believe, beyond the images that bind and blind us.

  John Shelby Spong

  Buddhist, Prayer, Believe

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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 is the sage . . . the sutras say, "Mind is the teaching." But people of no understanding don't believe in their own mind or that by understanding this teaching they can become a sage. They prefer to look for distant knowledge and long for things in space, buddha-images, light, incense, and colors. They fall prey to falsehood and lose their minds to insanity.

  Bodhidharma

  Believe, Fall, Teaching

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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, Hath risen to the throne of heaven, the heart Is mellow'd, and the shadows that becloud Our state of darken'd being, glide away.

  Robert Montgomery

  Sweet, Prayer, Heart

  Robert Montgomery (1829). “A universal prayer ; Death ; A vision of heaven ; and A vision of hell”, p.144

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• Planto romero por todo el jardín, tan agradable es saber que a cada pocos pasos uno puede pasar las amables ramitas por la mano, y disfrutar de su incomparable incienso; y lo cultivo contra las paredes, para que el sol pueda sacar su inagotable dulzura para saludarme al pasar.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Muro, Jardín, Manos

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). "Hogar y jardín: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Worker in Both", p.184, Cambridge University Press.

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• Una biblioteca es la sala de partos del nacimiento de las ideas, un lugar donde la historia cobra vida.

  Norman Cousins

  Lectura, Libro, Ideas

  Norman Cousins (1967). "Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey".

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• Almighty Framer of the Skies!O let our pure devotion rise,Like Incense in thy Sight!Wrapt in impenetrable Shade,The Texture of our Souls were made,Till thy Command gave Light.

  Thomas Chatterton

  Sky, Light, Sight

  Thomas Chatterton, Charles Bonnycastle Willcox (1842). “The Poetical Works of Thomas Chatterton: Acknowledged poems. Chatterton's will. Miscellaneous prose works”, p.324

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• Those magicians who object to the use of blood, have endeavored to replace it with incense. But, the bloody sacrifice, though more dangerous, is more efficacious. And for nearly all purposes, human sacrifice is the best.

  Aleister Crowley

  Sacrifice, Blood, Purpose

  Aleister Crowley (1991). "Magick: En la teoría y en la práctica", Venta de libros

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• Every hidden cell is throbbing with music and life, every fiber thrilling like harp strings.

  John Muir

  Cells, Tree, Music And Life

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir: Spiritual Writings”, p.64, Orbis Books

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• Love lieth deep; Love dwells not in lip-depths;
  Love laps his wings on either side the heart
  Absorbing all the incense of sweet thoughts,
  So that they pass not to the shrine of sound.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Sweet, Heart, Deep Love

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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 gazes Toward the newly Born: The simple shepherds from the star-lit brooks Brought visionary looks, As yet in their astonied hearing rung The strange sweet angel-tongue: The magi of the East, in sandals worn, Knelt reverent, sweeping round, With long pale beards, their gifts upon the ground, The incense, myrrh, and gold These baby hands were impotent to hold: So let all earthlies and celestials wait Upon thy royal state. Sleep, sleep, my kingly One!

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Baby, Stars

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