The medulla is the principal entrance for the body's supply of universal life force (AUM), and is directly connected with man's power of will, concentrated in the seventh or Christ Consciousness center ( Kutastha ) in the third eye between the eyebrows.
— from Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
Make your creed simply and broadly out of the revelation of God, and you may keep it to the end.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.
“It was easier to know it than to explain why I knew it.
— from A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle
When such a head as thine no outlet knows, It thinks the end must soon occur.
— from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do you know I think them exceedingly entertaining and strange?”
— from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Edgar Allan Poe
We speak a language that we did not make; we use instruments that we did not invent; we invoke rights that we did not found; a treasury of knowledge is transmitted to each generation that it did not gather itself, etc.
— from The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life by Émile Durkheim
In the highest terms I knew I tried to explain this to Ellador.
— from Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Concerning a method of Kondh sacrifice, which is illustrated by the wooden post preserved in the Madras Museum, Colonel Campbell records 3 that “one of the most common ways of offering the sacrifice in Chinna Kimedi is to the effigy of an elephant (hatti mundo or elephant’s head) rudely carved in wood, fixed on the top [ 203 ] of a stout post, on which it is made to revolve.
— from Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston
Al, watching, observed that as the rigger manipulated a pocket knife in the threaded end of the part, bright metal and a worn look were almost immediately evident.
— from The Mystery Crash Sky Scout Series, #1 by Van Powell
All that we know is that they existed from the remotest period of which we have cognizance, long before the pyramids were built.
— from Beacon Lights of History, Volume 02: Jewish Heroes and Prophets by John Lord
sall mak ane [ad]dress for him selff particularlie; quhilk aith, for [Pg 421] my pairt, I purpoise to keip inviolatit to the end.
— from The Works of John Knox, Volume 1 (of 6) by John Knox
Whether she is alive or in heaven I cannot say; but what I do know is that this extraordinary answer to our prayers secured the rest of the money, and led to the erection of one of the finest schools in London, in which there are more than a thousand scholars to-day.
— from In Answer to Prayer by Theodore L. (Theodore Ledyard) Cuyler
Charlie, I took your name once—glad and proud to bear it; let me take it now, and keep it to the end."
— from Tinman by Tom Gallon
Balkh, Haibak, and Bamian all testify, as does the neighbourhood of Kabul itself, to the existence of a lively Buddhist history before the Mahomedan Conquest, and between Kabul and India there are Buddhist remains near Jalalabad which rival in splendour those of the Swat valley and the Upper Punjab.
— from The Gates of India: Being an Historical Narrative by Holdich, Thomas Hungerford, Sir
The continued quibbling so enraged [Pg 862] Osceola that he drove his knife into the table e
— from A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year. Volume 2 (of 3) by Edwin Emerson
What we do know is, that Torrigiano executed Henry VII.'s tomb under a contract, and that a few other Italians of eminence resided for longer or shorter periods in England, together with a considerable number of their compatriots of less distinction.
— from Early Renaissance Architecture in England A Historical & Descriptive Account of the Tudor, Elizabethan, & Jacobean Periods, 1500-1625 by J. Alfred (John Alfred) Gotch
So I went ashore and hired a horse of the ferryman—one of those "Green Mountain ponies" of which my uncle had told me: "They'll take any gait that suits ye, except a slow one, an' keep it to the end o' the road."
— from The Light in the Clearing: A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright by Irving Bacheller
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