Famous quotes containing the words morning star, morning, star and/or ceremony:
“When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy?”
—Bible: Hebrew Job (l. XXXVIII, 7)
“No
Praise that the spring time is all
Gabriel and radiant shrubbery as the morning grows joyful”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)
“Firmness yclept in heroes, kings and seamen,
That is, when they succeed; but greatly blamed
As obstinacy, both in men and women,
Whene’er their triumph pales, or star is tamed —
And ‘twill perplex the casuist in morality
To fix the due bounds of this dangerous quality.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.”
—George Gurdjieff (c. 1877–1949)