"The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it."

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Source : Karl Philipp Moritz (2010). “Travels in England in 1782”, p.79, BoD – Books on Demand

Karl Philipp Moritz

#Prayer Quotes #Joining Quotes #Solemn Quotes

“I never considered myself a songwriter, but now since I've been working with Nick Lowe, I am contributing to an extent. But I'm the guitarist and he's not, so we compliment each other in a way.”
“I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive.”
“Retirement is not a dirty word, I am just enjoying what I am doing. If they want me to retire, then stop asking me. Ask and I will say yes unless it is something I really don't like.”
“Do whatever rejuvenates you. It might be a cooking class, cocktails with the girls, or just private time with the hubby. We all have our moments where we run out of steam because we've given everything we've got to everyone else. Whoever decided that was a good thing? It's not. Everyone needs to refuel.”
“I like the idea of being a postmodern moral philosopher - or perhaps a perverse moral philosopher.”
“Golf is a game invented by the same people who think music comes out of a bagpipe.”
“It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.”
“To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes closed so that when something is gone, it can be recognized by the shape of its absence. So that you can continue to possess the lost, because absence is the only constant thing. Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been.”

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