divinity (n.)

There's such divinity doth hedge a king,

That treason can but peep to what it would.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 5.

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. . . . There is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act v. Sc. 1.

Sacred and inspired divinity, the sabaoth and port of all men's labours and peregrinations.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Advancement of Learning. Book ii.

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,

Rough-hew them how we will.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 2.

It must be so,—Plato, thou reasonest well!

Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,

This longing after immortality?

Or whence this secret dread and inward horror

Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul

Back on herself, and startles at destruction?

'T is the divinity that stirs within us;

'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,

And intimates eternity to man.

Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!

Joseph Addison (1672-1719): Cato. Act v. Sc. 1.

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