The crown of creation. [ Herder ]
Joy is the mainspring in the whole
Of endless Nature's calm rotation.
Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll
In the great Time-piece of Creation. [ Schiller ]
Silently as a dream the fabric rose;
No sound of hammer or of saw was there. [ Cowper ]
All are but parts of one stupendous whole.
Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. [ Pope ]
Long is the calm brain active in creation;
Time only strengthens the fine fermentation. [ Goethe ]
Creation is great, and cannot be understood. [ Carlyle ]
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre over a slumbering world.
Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound!
Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds;
Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause;
An awful pause! prophetic of her end. [ Young ]
Evil is in antagonism with the entire creation. [ Zschokke ]
Creation's heir, the world, the world, is mine. [ Goldsmith ]
Unchangeable save in thy wild waves' play,
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow;
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. [ Byron ]
Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow;
Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now. [ Byron ]
Paganism worships creation instead of the Creator. [ William Cave ]
Chance is blind and is the sole author of creation. [ Saintine ]
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. [ Emerson ]
Oh! save me, ye powers, from these pinks of the nation,
These tea-table heroes! these lords of creation. [ Salmagundi ]
Man is Creation's master-piece. But who says so? - Man! [ Gavarni ]
Final Ruin fiercely drives Her ploughshare over creation. [ Young ]
In our fine arts, not imitation, but creation, is the aim. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Creation lives, grows, and multiplies: man is but a witness. [ Victor Hugo ]
Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance. [ Richard Baxter ]
Names alone mock destruction; they survive the doom of all creation. [ H. Trevanion ]
This is the very coinage of your brain; This bodiless creation ecstasy. [ William Shakespeare ]
Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count never made a man. [ Southern ]
Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious. [ Addison ]
A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? [ William Shakespeare ]
A woman filled with faith in the one she loves is the creation of a novelist's imagination. [ Balzac ]
God only opened His hand to give flight to a thought that He had held imprisoned from eternity. [ Timothy Titcomb ]
God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another. [ Luther ]
Nature never made an unkind creature; ill-usage and bad habits have deformed a fair and lovely creation. [ Sterne ]
A creation of importance can be produced only when its author isolates himself; it is ever a child of solitude. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
An atheist is one of the most daring beings in creation, - a condemner of God, who explodes His laws by denying His existence. [ John Foster ]
A mother is as different from anything else that God ever thought of, as can possibly be. She is a distinct and individual creation. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]
For the greatest fool and rascal in creation there is yet a worse condition; and that is, not to know it, but to chink himself a respectable man. [ George MacDonald ]
No; creation, one would think, cannot be easy; your Jove has severe pains, and fire flames, in the head out of which an armed Pallas is struggling. [ Carlyle ]
Women are the happiest beings of the creation: in compensation for our services they reward us with a happiness of which they retain more than half. [ De Varennes ]
God has made an unerring law for His whole creation, upon principles which, so far as we now know, can never he understood without the aid of mathematics. [ E. D. Mansfield ]
Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true wit or good sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. [ Chesterfield ]
Music is the harmonious voice of creation, an echo of the invisible world, one note of the divine concord which the entire universe is destined one day to sound. [ Mazzini ]
Man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn; and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie enfolded already in the first man. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense; the last was the light of the reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit. [ Bacon ]
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker if it is not the truth that he is speaking? If an eloquent speaker is not speaking the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? [ Carlyle ]
The joys of heaven are without example, above experience, and beyond imagination - for which the whole creation wants a comparison; we, an apprehension; and even the Word of God, a revelation. [ Bishop Norris ]
Art thou beautiful? Live, then, in accordance with the curious work and frame of the creation, and let the beauty of thy person teach thee to beautify thy mind with holiness, the ornament of the beloved of God. [ Penn ]
Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life; although the spirit be not master of that which it creates through music, yet it is blessed in this creation, which, like every creation of art, is mightier than the artist. [ Beethoven ]
All men are in some degree impressed by the face of the world; some men even to delight. This love of beauty is taste. Others have the same love in such excess that, not content with admiring, they seek to embody it in new forms. The creation of beauty is art. [ Emerson ]
Unconsciousness belongs to pure unmixed life; consciousness, to a diseased mixture and conflict of life and death; unconsciousness is the sign of creation; consciousness, at best, that of manufacture. So deep, in this existence of ours, is the significance of mystery. [ Carlyle ]
Words, those fickle daughters of the earth,
are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to explain that which is infinite, they fail; for that which is made surpasses not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues. [ Colton ]
Color, in the outward world, answers to feeling in man; shape, to thought; motion, to will. The dawn of day is the nearest outward likeness of an act of creation; and it is, therefore, also the closest type in nature for that in us which most approaches to creation - the realization of an idea by an act of the will. [ John Sterling ]
There are certain times in our life when we find ourselves in circumstances, that not only press upon us, but seem to weigh us down altogether. They give us, however, not only the opportunity, but they impose on us the duty of elevating ourselves, and thereby fulfilling the purpose of the Divine Being in our creation. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times my steriously in each of these books: thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right. [ Richard Cecil ]
I put myself, my experiences, my observations, my heart and soul into my work. I press my soul upon the white paper. The writer who does this may have any style, he or she will find the hearts of their readers. Writing a book involves, not a waste, but a great expenditure of vital force. Yet I can assure you I have written the last lines of most of my stories with tears. The characters of my own creation had become dear to me. I could not bear to bid them good-bye and send them away from me into the wide world. [ Amelia E. Barr, The Art of Authorship, 1891 ]