"Godlike" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the right flower in the buttonhole at just the right angle—so he would stand, with lips pursed in histrionic manner, gazing quietly before him, smiling, to casual friends, little smiles which were nothing more unbending than dignified acknowledgment. Then he would stretch a godlike arm to the rail, climb into his chair, and spend another half-minute in settling himself, turning now and then to inspect the house from floor to ceiling. At the tinkle of the stage-manager's bell the grand ...
— Nights in London • Thomas Burke
... lost the wish—the will—to cherish Those who trusted in thy godlike power? Hyacinthus did not wholly perish; Still he lives, the firstling of thy bower; Still he feels thy rays, Fondly meets thy gaze, Though but now the spirit of ...
— Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems • W.E. Aytoun
... conviction, founded, in my opinion, on a just view of the Constitution; that in arriving at it I have been actuated by no other motive or desire than to uphold the institutions of the country as they have come down to us from the hands of our godlike ancestors, and that I shall esteem my efforts to sustain them, even though I perish, more honorable than to win the applause of men by a sacrifice of my ...
— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Tyler - Section 2 (of 3) of Volume 4: John Tyler • Compiled by James D. Richardson
... for some friend, now, To conceal nothing from, to have no secrets. How fine and noble a thing is confidence, How reasonable, too, and almost godlike! Fast cement of fast friends, band of society, Old natural go-between in the world's business, Where civil life and order, wanting this cement, Would presently rush back Into the pristine state of singularity, And ...
— The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 • Charles Lamb
... like thee, so humbly bore The scorn, the scoffs of men before? So meek, forgiving, godlike, high, ...
— The Otterbein Hymnal - For Use in Public and Social Worship • Edmund S. Lorenz
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