Turtle Doves Quotes

• Be faithful in all your exercises of piety and virtue; be always resigned; be satisfied, in the superior part of your soul, to taste, without relish, the contentment of doing God's will. Thus after the winter the spring will come, with its flowers, and you will hear the voice of the turtle-dove in this land.

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  Paul of the Cross

  Spring   Flower   Exercise  

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• I long ago lost a hound, a bay horse, and a turtle-dove, and am still on their trail. Many are the travellers I have spoken concerning them, describing their tracks and what calls they answered to. I have met one or two who had heard the hound, and the tramp of the horse, and even seen the dove disappear behind a cloud, and they seemed as anxious to recover them as if they had lost them themselves.

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  Henry David Thoreau

  Horse   Clouds   Turtles  

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• "The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.

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  Alphonsus Liguori

  Prayer   Flower   Turtles  

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• Two turtle doves will show thee Where my cold ashes lie And sadly murmuring tell thee How in tears I did die

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  Nikolai Gogol

  Lying   Turtles   Two  

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• Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!

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  Edgar Allan Poe

  Moon   Night   Turtles  

  Edgar Allan Poe, “The Bells”

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