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coverings
«Life is so full of meaning and purpose, so full of beauty - beneath its covering - that you will find earth but cloaks your heaven.»
Author: Fra Giovanni Giocondo
(Archeologist, Architect, Engineer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
cloaks, covering, coverings
«Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light. A vast silence reigned over the land.»
«Because the heart beats under a covering of hair, of fur, feathers, or wings, it is, for that reason, to be of no account?»
Author: Jean Paul Richter
(Novelist)
| About:
Heart
| Keywords:
covering, coverings, feathers, fur, no-account
«A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don't know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox's or bear's, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
| About:
Self awareness,
Soul
| Keywords:
cover, covering, coverings, depths, forty, go into, hides, ox, skins, thick, thick skin, thirty
«Sentimentality is a superstructure covering brutality.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| About:
Sentimentality
| Keywords:
brutalities, brutality, covering, coverings, sentimentality, superstructure, superstructures
«Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
appeal, covering, coverings, mask, obscures, tribulation, tribulations, veil
«A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
aspire, automaton, automatons, clerical, compositions, contemptible, coverings, divinity, ecclesiastic, ecclesiastics, fleecy, full dress, General A, go-cart, hosiery, pasteboard, piece of work, prig, prigs, wax, wax figure
