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The soul knows only the soul; the web of events is the flowing robe in which she is clothed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Jargon is part ceremonial robe, part false beard. — Mason Cooley

I always designed my robes and how I would present myself at every fight. — Sugar Ray Leonard

Naked need is the occasion for God's giving, not a need adorned with the clean, elegant robes of respectability and good works. — Miroslav Volf

Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. — Thomas Campbell

There's nothing terrible in death;
'Tis but to cast our robes away,
And sleep at night, without a breath
To break repose till dawn of day. — Robert Montgomery

suddenly he's forced to wonder if each Jawa is just a fraternity of wet rats gathering together under brown robes and a black face veil. — Chuck Wendig

Church reminded me very much of going to shul. It was a bunch of men wearing long robes, speaking in a language I didn't understand. — Amy-Jill Levine

Time unlived grows old
Like unworn robes in a locked chest. — Oktay Rifat

One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks. — Mo Udall

Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd. — Tim Ward

A lot of people pretend to be. They wear robes and put on airs to take advantage of the ignorant and gullible. But — Patrick Rothfuss

He Who is wrapped in purple robes,
With planets in His care,
Had pity on the least of things
Asleep upon a chair. — William Butler Yeats

Oft gay and honoured robes those tortures try:
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry. — John Webster

Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate. — Sri Aurobindo

Gratitude for such favor stands dressed in robes of wonder. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

It's the twenty-first century. Arriving to find a bunch of old dudes in brown robes would be equally weird. — Kendare Blake

Just because a mage wears the black robes does not make him evil. — Margaret Weis

It's very difficult to stay angry when a room full of bald guys in orange robes start giggling. Buddhism. — Christopher Moore

Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation. — Francis Beaumont

Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help. — Stephen Batchelor

Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all. — Merle Shain

But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men. — Victor Hugo

No man can put on the robes of Christ's righteousness till he has taken off his own. — Charles Spurgeon

A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. — John Milton

Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked. — Zebulon Pike

In his robes and sandals, Zeus looked like a really buff, really angry hippie. — Rick Riordan

When people think of angels, they think flowing robes and halos. But in the Bible, they also look like ordinary people. Why not today? — Joan Anderson

Several people in green robes were — J.K. Rowling

He used to down an entire bottle of firewhisky, then run onto the dance floor, hoist up his robes, and start pulling bunches of flowers out of his - — J.K. Rowling

Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes. — Tammy Bruce

When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. — Daniel Webster

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor! — Hosea Ballou

Come up, April, though the valley, / In your robes of beauty drest, / Come and wake your flowery children / From their wintry beds of rest ... — Phoebe Cary

The trappings of a religious cult tend to fall into candlelit ceremonies and robes and group chanting and singing and prayer. — Sean Durkin

[L]iberation [doesn't occur] in wearing robes or performing ritual acts. — Steve Hagen

But Dad! It really did happen! I was transported to a Laboratory in an old stone castle and there was a wizard in blue robes with a floppy hat and ... — L.R.W. Lee

When summer gathers up her robes of glory, and like a dream of beauty glides away. — Sarah Helen Whitman

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way. The Lama in Kim — Rudyard Kipling

Innocence wears its own crown, Monsieur; it needs no added dignity; it is as sublime in rags as in royal robes. — Victor Hugo

I have learned that real angels don't have gossamer white robes and Cherubic skin, they have calloused hands and smell of the days' sweat. — Richard Paul Evans

I've got headdresses and robes from all over: I am the mystery of everybody's story. — Afrika Bambaataa

Five people in robes said they are bigger than the voters of California and Congress combined. And bigger than God. May He forgive us all. — Mike Huckabee

They all nodded and he saw five pairs of knees tighten beneath their robes. — J.K. Rowling

The humble were the elect of God. Did not the priests teach so, in their gemmed, kingly robes, from their towering pulpits? — Tanith Lee

Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed. — Barbara Tuchman

Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it. — Laurell K. Hamilton

Wrong doing must be punished. If not, it will proliferate until anarchy wears the robes of tolerance and understanding. — Terry Goodkind

And if my choice is to sit graciously in my best robes and accept the inevitable or to bail a sea with a bucket, give me the bucket. — Robin McKinley

Meeting the True Guru, hunger departs, hunger does not depart by wearing the robes of a beggar. — Guru Gobind Singh

Enzo enters with a sweep of dark robes, bringing with him the scent of wind, night, and death. — Marie Lu

You've been walking the ocean's edge, holding up your robes to keep them dry. You must dive naked under, and deeper under, a thousand times deeper! — Rumi

You have deceived our trust, and made us doff our easy robes of peace, to crush our old limbs in ungentle steel. — Henry Bolingbroke

The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

I stood still, a prey to a thousand thoughts, stifled in the robe of the evening. — Henri

No one bothered dressing up in priests' robes, for even in chaos hierarchy rules and their cloth wasn't rich enough. — Sarah Dunant

To wash one's hair, make one's toilet, and put on scented robes; even if not a soul sees one, these preparations still produce an inner pleasure. — Sei Shonagon

Those clouds are angels' robes. — Charles Kingsley

A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes. — Alexander Pope