A Quote by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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Nathaniel Parker Willis
American - Author
January 20, 1806 - January 20, 1867

The dust is old upon my "sandal-shoon," And still I am a pilgrim; I have roved From wild America to Bosphor's waters, And worshipp'd at innumerable shrines Of beauty; and the painter's art, to me, And sculpture, speak as with a living tongue, And of dead kingdoms, I recall the soul, Sitting amid their ruins.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

We live ruins amid ruins.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Amid the moon and the stars, amid the clouds of the night, amid the hills which bordered on the sky with their magnificent silhouette of pointed cedars, amid the speckled patches of the moon, amid the temple buildings that emerged sparkling white out of the surrounding darkness - amid all this, I was intoxicated by the pellucid beauty of Uiko's treachery.

Yukio Mishima

Women hope that the dead love may revive; but men know that of all dead things none are so past recall as a dead passion.

Ouida

There's always Tunisia. Amid the smoking ruins of the Middle East, there is that one encouraging success story.

Elliott Abrams

Within tears, find hidden laughter Seek treasures amid ruins, sincere one.

Rumi

My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins.

Bruce Springsteen

If you will move now, within the next three years the land you find yourself in will be producing great treasures. In the third year, the War of the Kingdoms will begin, and Kingdom will rise against kingdoms. The kingdoms of this world will also come into great conflict. I have a Kingdom that I am preparing. I will remember this Kingdom and the Seed and the Seed's seed of this Kingdom. I have a Kingdom that will triumph! Shout that the kingdoms of this earth are becoming My Kingdoms!

Chuck Pierce

But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, taste and smell alone, more fragile but more enduring, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, remain poised a long time, like souls, remembering, waiting, hoping, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unflinchingly, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection.

Marcel Proust

The art of progress is to preserve order amid change, and to preserve change amid order. Life refuses to be embalmed alive. The more prolonged the halt in some unrelieved system of order, the greater the crash of the dead society.

Alfred North Whitehead

You watch Jeff Sessions testifying in front of Congress, Jesus, like watching an amnesiac: "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't recall," "I don't remember," "I don't remember what I don't recall," "I recall what I don't remember." Amazing.

Don Winslow

One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.

J. C. Ryle

As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.

Dwight L. Moody

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

Saint Augustine

Remember to preserve a calm soul amid difficulties.

Horace

The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins of sugar estates and abandoned forts.

Derek Walcott

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