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Pensez-vous e"  tre saint et juste impune¤  ment? You think you can be holyand righteous with impunity?

—Racine,Jean

Ce corps qui s'appelait et qui s'appelle encore le saint empire romain n'e¤  tait en aucune manie'  re ni saint, ni romain, ni empire. This state which was called and is still called the Holy Roman Empire, was not in any way holy, or Roman or an Empire.

—Voltaire pseudonym of  Fran c° ois Marie Arouet

Why should only I† Be cased up, like a holy relic? I have youth And a little beauty.

—Webster,John

Since I am coming to that holy room Where, withThy choir of saints forevermore, I shall be madeThy Music, as I come I tune the instrument here at the door, And what I must do then, think now before.

—Donne,John

Let usnever toleratetheslightest inroad onthe discipline of our holy Church. Let us never consent that she should be made the hireling of the Ministry. Our forefathers would have diedönay, perished in hopeless slaveryörather than consent to such degradation.

—O'Connell, Daniel known as  the Liberator

Toda la cristiandad debe tomar alegr|¤a y hacer grandes fiestas, y dar gracias solemnes a la SantaTrinidad, con muchas oraciones solemnes por el tanto ensalzamiento que habra¤  n, en torna¤  ndose tantos pueblos a nuestra Santa Fe, y despue¤  s por los bienes temporales que no solamente a la Espan‹  a, mas a todos los cristianos tendra¤  n aqu |¤ refigerio y ganancia. All Christendom ought to feel joyful and make great Compton-Burnett celebrations and give solemn thanks to the HolyTrinity with many solemn prayers for the great exaltation which it will have, in the turning of so many people to our holy faith, and afterwards for material benefits, since not only Spain but all Christians will hence have refreshment and profit.

—Columbus, Christopher Spanish name  Cristo¤  bal Colo¤  n

The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and as I had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief.

—Speke,John Hanning

   A spectre is haunting Europeöthe spectre of communism. All the powers of old Europe have entered into a holyalliance to exorcise this spectre; Pope and Tsar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police spies.

—Marx, Karl Heinrich

A savage place! as holyand enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

—Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

I believe in the Church, one Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; and nowhere does it exist.

—Temple,William

Holy Deadlock.

—Herbert, SirA(lan) P(atrick)

O fairest of creation, last and best Of all God's works, creature in whom excelled Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet! How art thou lost, how on a sudden lost, Defaced, deflow'red, and now to death devote? Paradise Lost

—Milton,John

For I am the L your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

—Bible (Old Testament)

And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not dayand night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.

—Bible (NewTestament)

   Therefore with Angels, and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name; evermore praising thee, and saying: Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory: Glory be to thee,O Lord most High. Amen.

—Book of Common Prayer

  In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly. And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the L of hosts: the whole earth isfull of hisglory. And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Holy, Holy, Holy! Lord God Almighty! Early in the morning our song shall rise toThee: Holy, Holy, Holy! merciful and mighty! God inThree Persons, blesse'  d Trinity.

—Heber, Reginald

Complacencies of the peignoir, and late Coffee and oranges in a sunny chair, And the green freedom of a cockatoo Upon a rug mingle to dissipate The holy hush of ancient sacrifice.

—Stevens,Wallace

But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that yeshould shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light.

—Bible (NewTestament)

There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the cityof God, theholy place of thetabernacles ofthemost High.God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.

—Bible (Old Testament)

May He support us all the day long, till the shades lengthen, and the evening comes, and the busy world is hushed, and the fever of life is over, and our work is done! Then in His mercy may He give us a safe lodging, and a holy rest, and peace at the last.

—Newman,John Henry

Sanctum Satanum meum. My holy Satan.

—St Peter Damian or Pietro Damiani

Is this a holy thing to see In a rich fruitful land, Babes reduced to misery, Fed with cold and usurous hand?

—Blake,William

   Give notthat which isholy untothe dogs, neithercast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

—Bible (NewTestament)

But we, how shall we turn to little things And listen to the birds and winds and streams Made holy by their dreams, Nor feel the heart-break in the heart of things?

—Gibson,Wilfred Wilson

Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.

—Herbert, George

   And he said,Draw not nigh hither: put off thy shoes from off thy feet, for the place whereon thou standest is holy ground.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Quand me"  me Dieu n'existerait pas, la religion serait encore sainte et divineöDieu est le seul e"  tre qui, pour re¤  gner, n'ait me"  me pas besoin d'exister. Even if God did not exist, religion would still be holyand divine.God isthe only being who, inorder toreign, need not even exist.

—Baudelaire, Charles

Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.

—Walker, Alice Malsenior

O ye wha are sae guid yoursel, Sae pious and sae holy, Ye've nought to do but mark and tell Your Neebours'fauts an folly!

—Burns, Robert

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

—Bible (Old Testament)

The hills tell each other, and the listening Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned Up to thy holy feet visit our clime. Come o'er the eastern hills and let our winds Kiss thy perfumed garments; let us taste Thy morn and evening breath. Scatter thy pearls Upon our love-sick land that mourns for thee.

—Blake,William