Since you saw no form when the LORD spoke to you at Horeb out of the fire, take care and watch yourselves closely, so that you do ...not act corruptly by making an idol for yourselves, in the form of any figure -the likeness of male or female...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth bene...ath, or that is in the water under the earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not regard equality with God as s...omething to be exploited, but emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, being born in human likeness. And being found in human form, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death M even death on a cross.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved in... reality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is not merely the likeness which is precious ... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing ... the fa...ct of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think--and it is not at all monstrous in me to say ... that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Long shall we seek his likeness, long in vain, And turn to all of him which may remain,... Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die--in moulding Sheridan!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
John Brown and Giuseppe Garibaldi were contemporaries not solely in the matter of time; their endeavors as liberators link their n...ames where other likeness is absent; and the peaks of their careers were reached almost simultaneously: the Harper's Ferry Raid occurred in 1859, the raid on Sicily in the following year. Both events, however differing in character, were equally quixotic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobil...ity in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lover never sees personal resemblances in his mistress to her kindred or to others. His friends find in her a likeness to her ...mother, or her sisters, or to persons not of her blood. The lover sees no resemblance except to summer evenings and diamond mornings, to rainbows and the song of birds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »