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Were you told of the kingdom of which you speak by an oracle, or is it only a picture drawn by your imagination, a vision, and the offspring of your soul's desire?" "Neither," said Andreas, decidedly; and he went on in a louder voice: "I know it by revelation. Believe me, child, it is as certainly true as that the sun will set this night.
Pocock and the sound of the oracle; but he had to gird himself afresh which he did in the embrasure of the window, neither advancing nor retreating before provoking the revelation. It was apparently for Sarah to come more into view; he was in that case there at her service.
The habit of submitting all questions of policy to the arbitrament of counting noses and assenting without question to the result invests the ordeal with a seeming sanctity, and what was at first obeyed as the command of power comes to be revered as the oracle of wisdom.
"One day, when I had been reading about the fairies until I had the greatest desire in the world to see them, I went to my oracle, whom I found sitting beside the stream above the mill, for our father was a miller, and this had been our favorite spot from my earliest recollection.
And if they don't, mind what I say, it is because there is a moral defect on the failing side. Oh! but women are flightersome and easy frighted." "Whyles you have fears yourself, Mother." "Ay, I am that foolish whyles; but I shall be a sick, weak body, when I can't outmarch the worst of them." "You are just an oracle, Mother."
"The oracle at Delphi has ordered that it shall be given to the wisest of wise men, and for that reason we have brought it to you." "You have made a mistake," said Chilon. He is my worst enemy, and yet I admire him as the wisest man in the world. It is to him that you should have taken the tripod." The messengers made due haste to carry the golden prize to Athens.
"Now Palma was the Keller's oracle, and the Kellers were brimful of Nucingen's paper. A hint from Palma would be enough. Werbrust arranged with Palma, and he rang the alarm bell. There was a panic next day on the Bourse.
Whenever you feel any promptings to speak of the soul or to make any inquiries on its behalf, remember it is a sacred duty not to suppress them. "This ruler was happy in being able to find a single authority to whom he could appeal for an answer. If anybody wishes for such an answer now, he can find no oracle sole and decisive.
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