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Incense Quotes

No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.

Walter Savage Landor (1933). “Classical conversations: being imaginary conversations among Greek, Roman and Modern personages of classic consequence in the history of human culture”

Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

'The Bishop Orders his Tomb' (1845) l. 80

You might sooner get lightning out of incense smoke than true action or passion out of your modern English religion.

John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.312, University of Virginia Press

Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

c.1689 On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.166 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

Let your thoughts be psalms, your prayers incense, and your breath praise.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1885). “Sermons of Rev. C.H. Spurgeon of London ...”

I feel like I'm being too Zen. I'm inhaling too much patchouli and incense. It's embarrassing.

"Jimmy Fallon Interviews Jimmy Fallon". Interview with Eric Spitznagel and Peter Yang, www.menshealth.com. December 23, 2014.

The praise of a fool is incense to the wisest of us . . .

Benjamin Disraeli (1833). “Vivian Grey”, p.205