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More "Guardian spirit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of the vessel; and when any ventured, with other design, to approach his person, a sign, that none there dared to disregard, secured him the solitude he wished. Once or twice, indeed, the boy Roderick was seen hovering at his elbow, but it was as a guardian spirit would be fancied to linger near the object of its care, unobtrusively, and, it might almost be added, invisible. When, however, the sun came burnished and glorious, out of the waters of the east a gun was fired, to bring a coaster to the side of the "Dolphin;" and then ...
— The Red Rover • James Fenimore Cooper
... infant so miraculous in its birth, should be destined for great adventures: and accordingly we see it has been the guardian spirit of a prevailing party for almost twenty years. It can conquer kingdoms without fighting, and sometimes with the loss of a battle: It gives and resumes employments; can sink a mountain to a mole-hill, and raise a mole-hill to a mountain; has presided for many years at committees of elections; ...
— The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D. D., Volume IX; • Jonathan Swift
... again that scream of woe! Thrice have I heard, thrice, since the morning dawned, It hollowed loud, as if my guardian spirit Called from some vaulted mansion, OEdipus! Or is it but the work of melancholy? When the sun sets, shadows, that shewed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think fate hovers o'er our heads, Our apprehensions shoot beyond ...
— The Works of John Dryden, Vol. 6 (of 18) - Limberham; Oedipus; Troilus and Cressida; The Spanish Friar • John Dryden
... rich, and I will seek some beautiful poor girl, abandoned like myself, who has suffered, who knows what misery is. I will write to her and console her, and be her guardian spirit; she shall read my heart, my soul; she shall possess by double wealth, my two wealths,—my gold, delicately offered, and my thought robed in all the splendor which the accident of birth has denied to my grotesque body. But I myself shall remain hidden like the cause ...
— Modeste Mignon • Honore de Balzac
... termed Kitshi Manid[-o]—Great Spirit—approaching to a great extent the idea of the God of the Christian religion; the second in their estimation is Dzhe Manid[-o], a benign being upon whom they look as the guardian spirit of the Mid[-e]wiwin and through whose divine provision the sacred rites of the Mid[-e]wiwin were granted to man. The Animiki or Thunder God is, if not the supreme, at least one of the greatest of the malignant manid[-o]s, and it is from him that the J[)e]ssakk[-i]d are believed ...
— Seventh Annual Report • Various
... placed by the side of each a man's own Guardian Spirit, who is charged to watch over him—a Guardian who sleeps not nor is deceived. For to what better or more watchful Guardian could He have committed which of us? So when you have shut the doors and made a darkness within, remember never to say that ...
— The Golden Sayings of Epictetus • Epictetus
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