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Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I thinkdo there embrace.
Andrew Marvell— c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published1681).
But O as to embrace me she enclin'd I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
john milton— c.1658 Sonnets, no.19,'Methought I Saw'.
The vices of which we are full we carefully hide from others, and we flatter ourselves with the notion that they are small and trivial; we sometimes even embrace them as virtues.
john calvin— Page 32 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
If we cover and obliterate man’s faults and consider the beauty and dignity of God’s image in him, then we shall be induced to love and embrace him (Heb 12:16; Gal 6:10; Isa 58:7; Matt 5:44; Luke 17:3-4)
john calvin— Page 38 (Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life)
Those of us with too much invested in the way things are will never embrace the revolutionary cause required for wholesale change.
alan hirsch— p. 79 (The Faith of Leap (2011))
Lay bare the soul...painting and poetry are like love...an exchange of blood...a passionate embrace, without restraint, without defence. The picture is born...of an overflow of emotions and feelings...
joan miró— Conversations with Georges Duthuit the French art critic 1936
Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." In order for you yourself to become the way, the truth, and the life, you must embrace the whole universe and bring harmony to it.
sun myung moon— For Whom Are We Living, (1957-04-07)
I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness.
lily tomlin— As quoted in Variety magazine (2003)
Compassion is the desire that moves the individual self to widen the scope of its self-concern to embrace the whole of the universal self.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee— The Toynbee-Ikeda Dialogue: Man Himself Must Choose (1976).
We cannot walk befor we toddle, Though we may toddle far too long, If we embrace a lovely Model That is consistent, clear, and wrong. - Experts from "Notes from Wooods Hole", unpublished, 1976.
kenneth boulding— p.148 (Illustrating Economics: Beasts, Ballads and Aphorisms, 1980)
Being confident of our own future, we are now free of that inordinate fear of communism which once led us to embrace any dictator who joined us in that fear. I’m glad that that’s being changed.
jimmy carter— Jimmy Carter's Commencement Speech Given at Notre Dame University (June 1977).
I never knew the charm of spring Never met it face to face I never knew my heart could sing Never missed a warm embrace 'Til April in Paris. Whom can I run to What have you done to My heart...
yip harburg— "April in Paris" (1932) - YouTube video - YouTube video
WHERE and WHEN :;Are lost in space. THERE and THEN :;Do not embrace. So before we disappear Come sweet NOW and kiss the HERE.
yip harburg— "Adverbs" in Laughing Space : Funny Science Fiction (1982) edited by Isaac Asimov & ?J. O. Jeppson , p. 503
The life of God the life which the mind apprehends and enjoys as it rises to the absolute unity of all things may be described as a play of love with itself; but this idea sinks to an edifying truism, or even to a platitude, when it does not embrace in it the earnestness, the pain , the patience , and labor , involved in the negative aspect of things.
georg wilhelm friedrich hegel— Variant translation: The life of God and divine cognition may well be spoken of as a disporting of Love with itself; but this idea sinks into mere edification, and even insipidity, if it lacks the seriousness, the suffering, the patience, and the labor of the negative.
For most of her existence, Molly had not shied from a truth that most people understood but diligently suppressed: that every moment of every day, depending on the faith we embrace, each of us continues to live either by the merciful sufferance of God or at the whim of blind chance and indifferent nature.
dean r. koontz— Part 1, Chapter 2
Psychoanalysis provides truth in an infantile, that is, a schoolboy fashion: we learn from it, roughly and hurriedly, things that scandalize us and thereby command our attention. It sometimes happens, and such is the case here, that a simplification touching upon the truth, but cheaply, is of no more value than a lie. Once again we are shown the demon and the angel, the beast and the god locked in Manichean embrace, and once again man has been pronounced, by himself, not culpable.
stanisław lem— Preface (His Master's Voice (1968))
They sang their mysterious duo, sang of their nameless hope, their death-in-love, their union unending, lost forever in the embrace of night’s magic kingdom. O sweet night, everlasting night of love! Land of blessedness whose frontiers are infinite!
thomas mann— Ch. 8 (Tristan (1902))
Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.
thomas otway— The Orphan (1680), Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Let us swear an eternal friendship", John Hookham Frere, The Rovers, act i. sc. 1.
What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.
Boris Pasternak— As quoted in Bridges to Infinity : The Human Side of Mathematics (1983) by Michael Guillen
That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.
Andrew Sullivan— "Imaginationland," The Daily Dish (2007-10-25)
I hope for nothing in this world so ardently as once again to see that paradise called England. I long to embrace again all my old friends there.
— Cosimo III, Grand Duke of Tuscany. Quoted in The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici by Christopher Hibbet, page 292.
The grave's a fine and private place, But none, I think, do there embrace.
Andrew Marvell— Andrew Marvell, To His Coy Mistress (c. 1650).
To go out with the setting sun on an empty beach is to truly embrace your solitude.
Jeanne Moreau— French actress, singer, screenwriter and director
Give me a book that does my soul embrace And makes simplicity a grace Language freely flowing, thoughts as free Such pleasing books more taketh me Than all the modern works of art That please mine eyes and not my heart.
Ben Jonson— Margaret Denbo. Suggested by "Give me a look, give me a face, / That makes simplicity a grace." Ben Jonson, Silent Woman, Act I, scene 1.
He who first met the Highlands' swelling blue Will love each peak that shows a kindred hue, Hail in each crag a friend's familiar face, And clasp the mountain in his mind's embrace. I WIll live o see the end of ice cream I screamed and cried my ipod broke uhhhhh
lord byron— Lord Byron, The Island (1823), Canto II, stanza 12.
See plastic Nature working to this end, The single atoms each to other tend, Attract, attracted to, the next in place Form'd and impell'd its neighbor to embrace.
Alexander Pope— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle III, line 9
Most Moonies embrace a morality which would make them acceptable in the most genteel Anglican social circle.
— William Shaw, BBC, (1996), [1], The Independent
We're kicking off our fun old fashion family Christmas by heading out into the country in the old front-wheel drive sleigh to embrace the frosty majesty of the winter landscape and select that most important of Christmas symbols.
Clark Griswold— National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), played by Chevy Chase
embrace your spirituality but don't turn your back on your humanity.
steve maraboli— p. 89 (Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010))
