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Yet to that soul that is Catholic, who understands that the Eternal Throne is indeed above the stars and that the Transcendence of God is as fully a truth as His Immanence that God in Himself, apart from all that He has made, is all-fair and all-sufficient in His own Beauty to such a soul as this, if called to such a life, there is no need that the Church should declare explicitly that the Contemplative Life is the highest.
Many stars will be quenched, but 'they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament. That revelation will be more surprising to no one than to those who are its subjects, when they see themselves mirrored in that glass, and so unlike what they are here.
The outer bolt, too, withdraws, and God's blue dome and bright stars are above me! I am free from these cursed walls! Now the gate yields, too! I am free! free! Thank God, free once more!" As Emile emerged from the prison-gate, and it swung noiselessly back to its place, he gazed anxiously about, and at once descried a dark, half-bent figure of a man approaching him. His heart trembled.
But by that time Brent's expression had changed with astonishing suddenness. "I see! I see!" he said excitedly. "All right! Have you got space suits in your ship? We have them. So we'll go out and pelt the stars with garbage. I think we'd better get at it right now, too. In under two hours we'll be a fine target for more bombs, and it would be good to start ahead of time."
And God promised that he should have a son, and that his posterity should be very numerous; insomuch that their number should be like the stars. When he heard that, he offered a sacrifice to God, as he commanded him.
Or she would talk of the present; all between was like a night- sky black, and only lighted up by an awful comet and shining stars. That comet was Orion. All she had enjoyed with him and suffered through him she consigned to the period of her craziness; she had taught herself to regard it all as part of the madness to which she had been a victim.
That would have been trouble before which such as you are grieving over now would have paled as the stars pale before a strong noon-day sun. "I do not ask you your story, my poor girl, but listen, and I will tell you mine, and you can then judge how much mightier is my grief than yours." "If you look through the trees yonder you will see a great stone mansion on the brow of the hill.
But come what may, I here pledge my veracity that in all warlike conflicts and doubtful perplexities he will every acquit himself like a gallant, noble-minded, obstinate old cavalier. Forward, then, to the charge! Shine out, propitious stars, on the renowned city of the Manhattoes; and the blessing of St. Nicholas go with thee, honest Peter Stuyvesant.
The nearness of these bright stars to one another the length of the longer beam of the ``Cross'' is only six degrees makes this group very noticeable, whatever the arrangement of its components may be. The largest star, at the base of the ``Cross, is of the first magnitude, two of the others are of the second magnitude, and the fourth is of the third.
And Heracles and Prometheus wept over him, and went to bury him on Pelion; but Zeus took him up among the stars, to live forever, grand and mild, low down in the far southern sky. And in time the heroes died, all but Nestor the silver-tongued old man; and left behind them valiant sons, but not so great as they had been.
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