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Passages similar to: Dhammapada — Chapter IV: Flowers
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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.
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."
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...
Katha Upanishad
First Vallī (6)
A mortal ripens like corn, like corn he springs up again.'...
Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Book II (13)
From this root there grow and ripen the fruits of birth, of the life-span, of all that is tasted in life.
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 ...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (43)
Such Cloaths or Garments as a Man puts on, such is his Ornament or Lustre. And what Manner of Body soever Man sows into the Earth, such a Body also gr...
Pistis Sophia
Chapter 59 (Mary, his mother, interpreteth the song of Sophia from the xixth ode of Solomon)
The wreath in truth is woven for me; and it hath caused thy twigs to sprout in me. "'3. For it is not like unto a wreath withered that sprouteth not. ...
Chapter 18: Of the Creation of Heaven and Earth; and of the first Day. (42)
For here all is possible; as soon is the Good changed into Evil, as the Evil into Good.
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter I: Plan. (3)
In a meadow the flowers blooming variously, and in a park the plantations of fruittrees, are not separated according to their species from those of...
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. [Gen. 1....
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: The Blessedness of the Martyr. (12)
And Pindar says: "But the anxious thoughts of youths, revolving with toils, Will find glory: and in time their deeds Will in resplendent ether splendi...
Corpus Hermeticum
3. The Sacred Sermon (3)
Thus there arose four-footed beasts, and creeping things, and those that in the water dwell, and things with wings, and everything that beareth seed, ...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Womb-Birth: The Return to the Human World (40.3)
If birth is to be obtained over a heap of impurities, a sensation that it is sweet-smelling will attract one towards that impure mass, and birth will...
The Tibetan Book of the Dead
Book II: Womb-Birth: The Return to the Human World (40.4-40.5)
Whatsoever they [the wombs or visions] may appear to be, do not regard them as they are [or seem]; and by not being attracted or repelled a good womb...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter VII: The Blessedness of the Martyr. (17)
No mortal exists who has not toil; He buries children, and begets others, And he himself dies, And thus mortals are afflicted."
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter II: The Meaning of the Name Stromata or Miscellanies. (4)
Whence, "Seek, and ye shall find," holding on by the truly royal road, and not deviating. As we might expect, then, the generative power of the seeds...
Stromata (Miscellanies)
Chapter XXIII: On Marriage. (7)
"For to a man after death his children bring renown, Just as corks bear the net, Saving the fishing-line from the deep." according to the tragic poet...
Corpus Hermeticum
1. Poemandres, the Shepherd of Men (19)
When He said this, His Forethought did by means of Fate and Harmony effect their couplings and their generations founded. And so all things were...
Chandogya Upanishad
Prapathaka VIII, Khanda 2 (6)
'And he who desires the world of perfumes and garlands (gandhamâlya), by his mere will perfumes and garlands come to him, and having obtained the...
Chapter 4: Of the creation of the Holy Angels. An Instruction or open Gate of Heaven. (23)
There spring up also in these Powers and Virtues, all Manner of Blossoms and Flowers, with fair Heavenly Colours and Smells.
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