Twas in heaven pronounced - it was muttered in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell; On the confines of earth 'twas permitted to rest, And the depth of the ocean its presence confessed. Yet in shade let it rest, like a delicate flower, Ah, breathe on it softly, it dies in an hour.
When the Son on the Cross promises paradise in his company to the good thief, when he promises the future feast in Heaven to the Apostles, when he speaks of the kingdom of the Father, he is always pointing toward eternity. However brief and close to the earth his words sound, they echo throughout infinite eternity and permeate the faith of his followers with their eternal content. He knows what he speaks of, what he brings with him and what he promises; and he can convey it to those who know it not. The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
There is no word or action but has its echo in Eternity.
Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath.
It takes little or nothing to undo reputations, the merest trifle makes and remakes them, it is simply a question of finding the best means of engaging the confidence or interest of those who are to become one's unsuspecting echoes or accomplices.
Life is an echo. What you send out comes back.
In an echo of earlier times, the climate change prophets have in recent years tried to silence counter views and suppress dissent. August members of the Royal Society, a body once noted for its cultivation of debate in science, are now leaders of the 'science is settled' camp: the only debate they consider to be legitimate is about choice among the different forms of the centralized action they believe is required to deal with the problems they foresee.
Souls live on in perpetual echoes.
Fame is that which is known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds.
We say peace and the echo comes back from the other side, war. We dont want wars even when we win.
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity.
She was so fat that her belly button makes an echo.
Laughter appears to stand in need of an echo, Listen to it carefully: it is not an articulate, clear, well-defined sound; it is something which would fain be prolonged by reverberating from one to another, something beginning with a crash, to continue in successive rumblings, like thunder in a mountain.
Money is an echo of value. It's the thunder to Value's Lightning.
I feel the need to scream, and even if the scream is not answered, I find my sanity in the echo.
The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.
. . . the sound of our lack of conversation amplified by the echo of our footsteps on the stone around us.
We rejoice in God since he has taught us that every thing which is true in us, is but a faint expression of what is in him. And thus all our joys become to us the echo of higher joys, and our very life is as a dream of that nobler life, to which we shall awaken when we die.
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization. . . Without it, the imagination is but the echo of the self, trapped in a soundproof chamber, reverberating upon itself until it is spent in exhaustion or futility.