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Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. the Greeks Plagiarized From One Another. (4)
The budding wood bears some; in time of spring, They come. So springs one race of men, and one departs."
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (6)
A mortal ripens like corn, like corn he springs up again.'...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto VIII (6)
Hence one is Solon born, another Xerxes, Another Melchisedec, and another he Who, flying through the air, his son did lose. Revolving Nature, which a ...
Corpus Hermeticum
3. The Sacred Sermon (4)
[Thus] there begins their living and their growing wise, according to the fate appointed by the revolution of the Cyclic Gods, and their deceasing...
Chapter 8: Of the whole Corpus or Body of an Angelical Kingdom. The Great Mystery. (81)
Thus is the true springing or vegetation in nature, be it in man, beast, wood, herbs or stones. Now observe the End of Nature in this World.
Chapter 21: Of the Third Day. (22)
For that is called its own kind which is received in the mother's body or womb, and is its own by right of nature, as its own peculiar life.
Dhammapada
Chapter IV: Flowers (53)
As many kinds of wreaths can be made from a heap of flowers, so many good things may be achieved by a mortal when once he is born.
Divine Comedy
Purgatorio: Canto VII (6)
Not oftentimes upriseth through the branches The probity of man; and this He wills Who gives it, so that we may ask of Him. Eke to the large-nosed...
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto XXVII (7)
Even thus is swarthy made the skin so white In its first aspect of the daughter fair Of him who brings the morn, and leaves the night. Thou, that it...
The Masnavi
The Arab and his Wife (211-220)
That men may not see the bloom of the one and the other's shame, True, the Gardener knows the difference even in autumn, But the sight of One is...
Chapter 24: Of the Incorporating or Compaction of the Stars. (7)
Behold and consider a tree: On the outside it has a hard, gross rind or bark, which is dead, benumbed, and without vegetation—yet not quite dead, but...
Chapter 11: Of the Seventh Qualifying or Fountain Spirit in the Divine Power. (66)
Do they not all grow out of the earth? Do they not stand one by another? Does the one grudge the beauteous form of the other?
The Masnavi
The Young Ducks who were brought up under a Hen (19-27)
Hence thou goest both upon earth and on heaven." Hence to outward view "He is a man like you," While to his sharp-seeing heart "it hath been...
Chuang Tzu
Knowledge Travels North. (6)
"Tree-fruits and plant-fruits exhibit order in their varieties; and the relationships of man, though more difficult to be dealt with, may still be red...
Chapter 25: Of the whole Body of the Stars and of their Birth or Geniture; that is, the whole Astrology, or the whole Body of this World. (50)
Accordingly I find, that the birth or geniture of nature stands to this day, and generateth itself, just so as it did when it first took its...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka V, Khanda 9 (2)
When he has departed, his friends carry him, as appointed, to the fire (of the funeral pile) from whence he came, from whence he sprang....
Divine Comedy
Paradiso: Canto I (2)
Thou'lt see me come unto thy darling tree, And crown myself thereafter with those leaves Of which the theme and thou shall make me worthy. So seldom,...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (25)
For every quality bears its own fruit: as in the corrupted murderous den or dark valley and dungeon of the earth there spring up all manner of earthly...
Egyptian Book of the Dead
Chapter CXXXIII (5)
Thou dividest them that follow; the Bark advanceth and the Ancient ones step onwards at thy voice
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
Brahmana 9 (3.9.28)
Then he [i.e. Yajnavalkya] questioned them with these verses: — As a tree of the forest, Just so, surely, is man. His hairs are leaves. His skin the...
Life of Pythagoras
CHAP. XIV. (5)
The tender plant, and withers all its shades; It lies uprooted from its genial bed, A lovely ruin now defac’d and dead.
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