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• Association is the delight of the heart, not less than of poetry. Alison observes that an autumn sunset, with its crimson clouds, glimmering trunks of trees, and wavering tints upon the grass, seems scarcely capable of embellishment. But if in this calm and beautiful glow the chime of a distant bell steal over the fields, the bosom heaves with the sensation that Dante so tenderly describes.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Beautiful, Heart, Sunset

  Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.11

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• England that little gray island in the clouds where governments don't fall overnight and children don't sell themselves in the street and my money is safe.

  Caryl Churchill

  Children, Fall, Islands

  Caryl Churchill (2013). “Serious Money”, p.59, A&C Black

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• And when, in the evening of life, the golden clouds rest sweetly and invitingly upon the golden mountains, and the light of heaven streams down through the gathering mists of death, I wish you a peaceful and abundant entrance into that world of blessedness, where the great riddle of life will be unfolded to you in the quick consciousness of a soul redeemed and purified.

  J. G. Holland

  Death, Light, Heaven

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 185, 1895.

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• Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.

  Janusz Korczak

  Believe, Men, Dust

  Janusz Korczak (2003). “Ghetto Diary”, p.22, Yale University Press

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• If you are in this business long enough, you hear about a thousand things that are going to kill you. Open source? Yeah, we are not dead yet. Cloud? That's not new; it's a new name.

  Safra A. Catz

  Names, Long, Enough

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• Every bit of you has been replaced many times over... The point is that you are like a cloud: something that persists over long periods, whilst simultaneously being in flux. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. Whatever you are, therefore, you are not the stuff of which you are made.

  Steve Grand

  Long, Together, Matter

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• If you didn't sit with your head in the clouds so perpetually you wouldn't get so many shocks.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Unawareness, Shock, Ifs

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• However young, the seeker who sets out upon the way
  Shines bright over the world.
  But day and night the person who is awake
  Shines in the radiance of the spirit.
  Meditate.
  Live purely.
  Be quiet.
  Do your work, with mastery.
  Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds!
  Shine!

  Gautama Buddha

  Moon, Night, Shine Bright

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• I try to find the beauty in things. On dark days, I sit in my armchair looking at clouds and I am awed at how rain is made.

  Ayana Mathis

  Rain, Dark, Trying

  FaceBook post by Ayana Mathis from May 14, 2017

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• I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Atmosphere, Earth, Haze

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• No cloud can overshadow a true Christian but his faith will discern a rainbow in it.

  Thomas Hartwell Horne

  Faith, Christian, Rainbow

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• Journeys end in lovers' meeting.' ... But the real journey - the journey of adventure itself - is frequently another matter: often gray, often loverless, often demanding from the secret soul of the adventurer spirit and inspiration, lest the blood turn cold in sick dismay, and the brain cloud under its weight of nostalgia.

  Katherine Cecil Thurston

  Real, Inspiration, Adventure

  Katherine Cecil Thurston (2008). “Max (EasyRead Comfort Edition)”, p.22, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.

  James Vila Blake

  Anger, Passion, Fire

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• Yes!--still I love thee: Time, who sets
  His signet on my brow,
  And dims my sunken eye, forgets,
  The heart he could not bow;--
  Where love, that cannot perish, grows
  For one, Alas! that little knows
  How love may sometimes last;
  Like sunshine wasting in the skies
  When clouds are overcast.

  Rufus Dawes

  Heart, Eye, Sunshine

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• It is said that angels come as thoughts, as visions, as dreams, as animals, as the light on the water or in clouds and rainbows, and as people too. Are they walking on this earth as people in disguise? Or do they appear for that one moment and vanish into ether again? Or is it really us, mere humans, who for a moment are picked up by the hand of God and made to speak unwittingly the words another needs to hear, or to hold out a life line to another soul?

  Sophy Burnham

  Dream, Angel, Animal

  Sophy Burnham (2011). “A Book of Angels: Reflections on Angels Past and Present, and True Stories of How They Touch Our L ives”, p.44, Penguin

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• Out of my deeper heart a bird rose and flew skywards.
  Higher and higher did it rise, yet larger and larger did it grow.
  At first it was but like a swallow, then a lark, then an eagle, then as vast as a spring cloud, and then it filled the starry heavens.
  Out of my heart a bird flew skywards. And it waxed larger as it flew. Yet it left not my heart.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spring, Heart, Eagles

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• Some astronauts describe the routine flushing of urine into space, where the freezing temperatures turn the droplets into a cloud of bright, drifting crystals, as being among the most amazing sights they saw on an entire voyage.

  Gene Cernan

  Space, Sight, Voyages

  "This much I know". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. June 15, 2002.

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• I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Karma, Believe, Mean

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2008.

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• I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

  Peter Capaldi

  People, The End Of The Day, Paint

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2009.

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• I've got a great family and great people around me that would be able to kick me in the shins if I ever for one minute got lost up in the clouds. I've been really lucky in that sense.

  Emma Stone

  People, Would Be, Lucky

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Morning, Angel, Dust

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Nature addresses and lectures”, p.17

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• Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth,
  Near to the king in blood, and near in love
  Till you did make him misinterpret me--
  Have stooped my neck under your injuries
  And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,
  Eating the bitter bread of banishment,
  Whilst you have fed upon my signories,
  Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods,
  From my own windows torn my household coat,
  Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign,
  Save men's opinions and my living blood,
  To show the world I am a gentleman.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Men, Blood

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.311, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds.

  William Shakespeare

  Giving, House, Cost

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Henry IV”, p.44, Palgrave Macmillan

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• The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,
  Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Light, Dawn

  William Shakespeare, Oliver William Bourn Peabody, Samuel Weller Singer, Charles Symmons, John Payne Collier (1851). “The dramatic works of William Shakspeare...: embracing a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected...”, p.175

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• Yon grey lines
  That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

  William Shakespeare

  Dawn, Lines, Messengers

  William Shakespeare, Ad Brown (1850). “Julius Caesar ... With explanatory French notes, by Ad. Brown. Improved with a copious selection of notes from Johnson, Steevens, Malone, Theobald, Warburton, etc”, p.67

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