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External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami Vivekananda

Nature, Large, Internal

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.
John Keats

Here, Lies, Water

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen Covey

Character, Public, Behavior

I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other as this Writ of Assistance is.
James Otis

God, Dying, Hand

Every one with this writ may be a tyrant; if this commission be legal, a tyrant in a legal manner, also, may control, imprison, or murder any one within the realm.
James Otis

Legal, May, Control

Kids are anarchy writ large.
Jeffrey Kluger

Kids, Large, Anarchy

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it.
Karen Armstrong

He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
Aphra Behn

Learning, Nothing, Knew

As long as 'Pearl Harbor' stays in the past, it's perfect; when it wretchedly changes gears in the late going, it becomes the wrong kind of same old story: Hollywood stupidity and callowness, writ large across the sky.
Stephen Hunter

Past, Stupidity, Long

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Edward Fitzgerald

Moving, Word, Nor

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
Tom Baker

Daily, Happen, Large

The Justices are currently considering a case, argued last month, which seeks to extend the writ of habeas corpus to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees at Guantanamo.
John Yoo

Last, Month, Taliban

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they.
Thomas Goodwin

Great, Holy, Though

Britain is not a country that is easily rocked by revolution... In Britain our institutions evolve. We are a Fabian Society writ large.
William Hamilton

Society, Revolution, Country

When you read any great mystery, recorded in holy Writ, you are to prostrate your Reason to Divine Revelation.
Thomas Ken

Great, Reason, Read

Nor ought a genius less than his that writ attempt translation.
John Denham

Genius, Less, Nor

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