Original Divine Plan

Famous quotes containing the words original, divine and/or plan:

    The world is forever babbling of originality; but there never yet was an original man, in the sense intended by the world; the first man himself—who according to the Rabbins was also the first author—not being an original; the only original author being God.
    Herman Melville (1819–1891)

    There is no odor so bad as that which rises from goodness tainted. It is human, it is divine carrion.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    The Lord wrote it all down on the little slate
    Of the baby tortoise.
    Outward and visible indication of the plan within,
    The complex, manifold involvedness of an individual creature
    —D.H. (David Herbert)