quotes about Robes
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A tree is a nobler object than a prince in his coronation-robes.
-- Alexander Pope -
The gospel always comes to people in cultural robes. There is no such thing as a ‘pure’ gospel, isolated from culture
-- David J -
Grace comes often clad in the dusky robe of desolation.
-- Francis Beaumont -
We ascribe meanings because it is our nature to do so..We can no more see a thing without searching for a meaning than we can see a snag in a robe without pulling on the loose thread.
-- Kij Johnson -
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Even without his robes an arahant is recognized simply by the effect his metta has in a crowd.
-- Tim WardSource : Tim Ward (2013). “What the Buddha Never Taught: A 'Behind the Robes" Account of Life in a Thai Forest Monastery”, p.207, Changemakers Books
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Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
-- Zebulon PikeSource : Zebulon Montgomery Pike, Thomas Rees (1811). “Exploratory Travels Through the Western Territories of North America: Comprising a Voyage from St. Louis, on the Mississippi, to the Source of that River, and a Journey Through the Interior of Louisiana, and the North-eastern Provinces of New Spain ; Performed in the Years 1805, 1806, 1807, by Order of the Government of the United States”, p.188