The whole of ancient astrology owed its origin to conversation with the cosmic intelligences. But by the time of the first centuries after the rise of Christianity, ancient astrology - that is to say, conversation with cosmic intelligences - was a thing of the past.
Men rise from one ambition to another: first, they seek to secure themselves against attack, and then they attack others.
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!
When all is said and done, what constitutes the impregnable superiority of Christianity over all other types of Faith is that it is ever more consciously identified with a Christogenesis: in other words, with an awareness of the rise of a certain universal Presence which is at once immortalizing and unifying.
With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
The question is always whether all of Baltimore will rise together or whether we will leave some behind.
Since World War II, inflation - the apparently inexorable rise in the prices of goods and services - has been the bane of central bankers.
Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
Rather go to bed without dinner than to rise in debt.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.
Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
The behaviour of President Bush on 11 September certainly gives rise to not unnatural suspicions.
If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?