The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. 

~ George Elliot ~


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Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe. 

 ~ Eileen Elias Freeman ~


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He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. 

   ~ Henry Wadsworth  
       Longfellow ~


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A pillow for thee will I bring,
Stuffed with down of angel's wing.
~ Richard Crashaw ~


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In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. 

 ~ George Bernard Shaw ~


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When babies look beyond you and giggle, maybe they're seeing angels.

~  Eileen Elias Freeman ~


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The angels are so
enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven
that they will not distort their lips with the hissing and unmusical dialects of men, but speak their own, whether their be any who understand it or not. 

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~


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If trouble hearing Angels song with thine ears, try listening with thy heart. 

 ~ Meriel Stelliger ~


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Angels shine from without because their spirits are lit from within by the light of God. 

~  Eileen Elias Freeman ~


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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~


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If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. 

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~


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Music is well said to be the speech of angels. 

~ Thomas Carlyle ~


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An angel lost his wing,
Crooked he did fly.

~ Emma Racine deFleur ~


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Angels can fly because they carry no burdens. 

 ~  Eileen Elias Freeman ~


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Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words.  They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. 

~ Lydia M. Child ~


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Angels are direct creations of God, each one a unique Master's piece. 

~  Eileen Elias Freeman ~


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Angels deliver Fate to our doorstep - and anywhere else it is needed. 

 ~ Jessi Lane Adams ~


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If one looks closely enough, one can see angels in every piece of art. 

~ Adeline Cullen Ray ~


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If I have freedom in my love,
And in my soul am free,
Angels alone that soar above,
Enjoy such liberty.

~ Richard Lovelace ~


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Children often have imaginary playmates.  I suspect that half of them are really their guardian angels.

  ~Eileen Elias Freeman ~


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I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. 

~ Michelangelo ~


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Angels are messengers, but sometimes we misunderstand their language. 

 ~ Linda Solegato ~


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O welcome, pure-eyed Faith, white-handed Hope,
Thou hovering angel, girt with golden wings!

~ John Milton ~


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If angels rarely appear, it's because we all too often mistake the medium for the Message. 

~  Eileen Elias Freeman ~


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A grave is braced not just by a tombstone but by angels as well. 

~ Adabella Radici ~