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goddess
«Queen and huntress, chaste and fair, / Now the sun is laid to sleep, / Seated in thy silver chair, / State in wonted manner keep: / Hesperus entreats thy light, / Goddess, excellently bright.»
«The professors laugh at themselves, they laugh at life; they long ago abjured the bitch-goddess Success, and the best of them will fight for his scholastic ideals with a courage and persistence that would shame a soldier. The professor is not afraid of words like truth; in fact he is not afraid of words at all.»
Author: Catherine Drinker Bowen
(Writer)
| Keywords:
abjure, abjured, best of them, bitch, goddess, long ago, professor, professors, scholastic, The Professor
«Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands: / So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
craft, Diana, Ephesus, goddess, gods and goddesses, Great Goddess, nought, persuaded, Temple of
«The earth that holds treasures manifold in secret places, wealth, jewels, and gold shall she give to me; she that bestows wealth liberally, the kindly goddess, wealth shall she bestow upon us!»
«There is no art in turning a goddess into a witch, a virgin into a whore, but the opposite operation, to give dignity to what has been scorned, to make the degraded disireable, that calls for art or for character.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
calls, degraded, dignity, goddess, in operation, operation, opposite, scorned, scorning, The Witches, turning, Virgin, whore, witch, witching
«Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess.»
Author: John Milton
(Historian, Poet, Scholar)
| Keywords:
Among the, goddess, gods and goddesses, henceforth, taste, the gods
«The exclusive worship of the bitch-goddess Success is our national disease.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
bitch, exclusive, goddess