Temple Sacrifices

Famous quotes containing the words temple and/or sacrifices:

    “Thou shalt make thy house
    The temple of a nation’s vows.
    Spirits of a higher strain
    Who sought thee once shall seek again.
    I detected many a god
    Forth already on the road,
    Ancestors of beauty come
    In thy breast to make a home.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The merit of those who fill a space in the world’s history, who are borne forward, as it were, by the weight of thousands whom they lead, shed a perfume less sweet than do the sacrifices of private virtue.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)