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The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

George Eliot
English novelist (1819 - 1880)

Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
Greatest English dramatist & poet (1564 - 1616)

Unlike those who pretend to be immaculate, fallen angels are usually more intriguing because their earthliness is heavenly.

Carl Polloi

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

Alexander Pope, (1712?)
English poet & satirist (1688 - 1744)

Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 13:2

As I was walking among the fires of Hell,
delighted with the enjoyments of Genius;
which to Angels look like torment and insanity.
I collected some of their Proverbs.

William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", 1790
English engraver, illustrator, & poet (1757 - 1827)

Somewhere between the Angels and the French lies the rest of humanity.

Mark Twain
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep,
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes,
And into glory peep.

Henry Vaughn

I have always found that angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise.

William Blake, Marriage of Heaven and Hell
English engraver, illustrator, & poet (1757 - 1827)

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

John Steinbeck, East of Eden, Chapter 13, Part II
US novelist (1902 - 1968)

Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us.

Horace Mann
US educator (1796 - 1859)

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the governing of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory shall swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of nature.

Abraham Lincoln
16th president of US (1809 - 1865)

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano de Crescento

It is sad that while science moves ahead in exciting new areas of research, fine-tuning our knowledge of how life originated and evolved, creationists remain mired in medieval debates about angels on the head of a pin and animals in the belly of an Ark.

Michael Shermer

We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another.

Luciano de Crescenzo

It would take battalions of angels to protect us from our dreaded dangers, though in a long lifetime few of the dangers come to anything.

Author Unknown

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