Manna Quotes 

And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that hemight maketheeknow that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the L doth man live.
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   We loathe our manna, and we long for quails.

john dryden

— 1682  The Medal, l.131.

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She found me roots of relish sweet, And honey wild, and manna dew; And sure in language strange she said, 'I love thee true.'

john keats

— 1820  'La Belle Dame Sans Merci', stanza 7.

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He seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropped manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason.

john milton

— 1665  Of Belial. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.110-14.

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Progress toward a more abundant material life does not come like manna from heaven, however. My message certainly is not one of complacency. The ultimate resource is people — especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty — who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefit and inevitably benefit the rest of us as well.

julian simon

— "The State of Humanity: Steadily Improving," Cato Institute Policy Report, September/October 1995 [3]

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I've found him to be a disappointment. Wonderful speech in Egypt, and good intentions aside, foreign policy needs to be firmly grounded in reality, and understanding of a sort of chaos theory...[that is to say] it needs to be part good intention, part political intelligence, and part political savvy and knowledge of international interests and national burdens. President Obama has been extremely short-sighted in this sense, and if he fails, it will be a tragic blow for peaceniks and multilateralists the world over, and a manna from heaven for the Republican party.

munir butt

— Source: Foreign Affairs. 2009

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Every word you wrote I ate, as if it were manna. Finding one's self in a book is a second birth; and you are the only one who knows that at times men behave like women and women like men, and that all these distinctions are mock distinctions.

anaïs nin

— Collages (1964), p. 114

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Though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

john milton

— John Milton, Paradise Lost (1667; 1674), Book II, line 112.

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Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give some of the hidden manna. I will also give that person a white stone with a new name written on it, known only to the one who receives it.


— Jesus, Revelation 2:17.

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They gathered up the crystal manna to freezeTheir tongues with tasting, their hands with snowballing;Or rioted in a drift, plunging up to the knees.

robert bridges

— London Snow, l. 20-22.

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Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Of starved people.


— Lorenzo, scene i

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