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to forgive is divine
Definition
wonderful; or god-like or coming from God
- The full, lustrous face, with the bright black coronet, looked down like that of a divinity well pleased to be worshipped, on the pale-hued, small-featured face that was turned up to it.5.3 — Book 5 Chapter 3 — The Wavering Balance (25% in)
- It flashed through her like the suddenly apprehended solution of a problem, that all the miseries of her young life had come from fixing her heart on her own pleasure, as if that were the central necessity of the universe; and for the first time she saw the possibility of shifting the position from which she looked at the gratification of her own desires,—of taking her stand out of herself, and looking at her own life as an insignificant part of a divinely guided whole.4.3 — Book 4 Chapter 3 — A Voice from the Past (70% in)
- Thought was busy though the lips were silent; and though he could ask no question, he guessed a story of almost miraculous, divinely protected effort.7.5 — Book 7 Chapter 5 — The Last Conflict (86% in)
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- Blessed are those ears that receive the whispers of the divine voice, and listen not to the whisperings of the world.4.3 — Book 4 Chapter 3 — A Voice from the Past (62% in)
- Mrs. Tulliver's blond face seemed aged ten years by the last thirty hours; the poor woman's mind had been busy divining when her favorite things were being knocked down by the terrible hammer; her heart had been fluttering at the thought that first one thing and then another had gone to be identified as hers in the hateful publicity of the Golden Lion; and all the while she had to sit and make no sign of this inward agitation.3.6 — Book 3 Chapter 6 — Tending to Refute the Popular Prejudice.... (9% in)
- "You don't call Mumps a cur, I suppose?" said Maggie, divining that any interest she showed in Mumps would be gratifying to his master.4.3 — Book 4 Chapter 3 — A Voice from the Past (22% in)
- The greatest of painters only once painted a mysteriously divine child; he couldn't have told how he did it, and we can't tell why we feel it to be divine.5.1 — Book 5 Chapter 1 — In the Red Deeps (74% in)
- The greatest of painters only once painted a mysteriously divine child; he couldn't have told how he did it, and we can't tell why we feel it to be divine.5.1 — Book 5 Chapter 1 — In the Red Deeps (74% in)
- So it has been since the days of Hecuba, and of Hector, Tamer of horses; inside the gates, the women with streaming hair and uplifted hands offering prayers, watching the world's combat from afar, filling their long, empty days with memories and fears; outside, the men, in fierce struggle with things divine and human, quenching memory in the stronger light of purpose, losing the sense of dread and even of wounds in the hurrying ardor of action.5.2 — Book 5 Chapter 2 — Aunt Glegg Learns the Breadth of Bob's Thumb (2% in)
- She and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion,—when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial word, the lightest gesture, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent.6.1 — Book 6 Chapter 1 — A Duet in Paradise (47% in)
- Where, then, would be all the memories of early striving; all the deep pity for another's pain, which had been nurtured in her through years of affection and hardship; all the divine presentiment of something higher than mere personal enjoyment, which had made the sacredness of life?6.13 — Book 6 Chapter 13 — Borne Along by the Tide (12% in)
- She looked playful reproach at Stephen, who was sauntering up and down, and was just singing in pianissimo falsetto,— "The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine."6.13 — Book 6 Chapter 13 — Borne Along by the Tide (22% in)
- Stephen presently turned to a duet which he insisted that Lucy and Philip should sing; he had often done the same thing before; but this evening Philip thought he divined some double intention in every word and look of Stephen's, and watched him keenly, angry with himself all the while for this clinging suspicion.6.13 — Book 6 Chapter 13 — Borne Along by the Tide (29% in)
- We can only choose whether we will indulge ourselves in the present moment, or whether we will renounce that, for the sake of obeying the divine voice within us,—for the sake of being true to all the motives that sanctify our lives.6.14 — Book 6 Chapter 14 — Waking (74% in)
- All people of broad, strong sense have an instinctive repugnance to the men of maxims; because such people early discern that the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims, and that to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy.7.2 — Book 7 Chapter 2 — St. Ogg's Passes Judgment (97% in)
- I told you long ago that I had never been resigned even to the mediocrity of my powers; how could I be resigned to the loss of the one thing which had ever come to me on earth with the promise of such deep joy as would give a new and blessed meaning to the foregoing pain,—the promise of another self that would lift my aching affection into the divine rapture of an ever-springing, ever-satisfied want?7.3 — Book 7 Chapter 3 — Showing That Old Acquaintances Are Capable.... (72% in)
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