Earth Quotes - Page 16

• In addressing you I feel that I am not so much speaking to the representatives of diverse States of Europe and America as to the exponents of principles and hopes that are common to us all, and without which our life on earth would be a life without horizon or prospect.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  America, Europe, Perspective

  "Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's Speech at the London Interparliamentary Conference". The Advocate of Peace, Volume 68, No. 9, archive.org. September 1906.

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• The heavens call to you, and circle about you, displaying to you their eternal splendors, and your eye gazes only to earth.

  Dante Alighieri

  Eye, Circles, Heaven

  Dante Alighieri (1991). “Purgatorio”, p.153, Princeton University Press

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• We are dealing with a yet unrecognized level of consciousness, independent of man but closely linked to the earth.... I do not believe anymore that UFOs are simply the spacecraft of some race of extraterrestrial visitors. This notion is too simplistic to explain their appearance, the frequency of their manifestations through recorded history, and the structure of the information exchanged with them during contact.

  Jacques Vallee

  Believe, Independent, Men

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• May all the stars hang bright above her dwelling, Silent as though they watched the sleeping earth!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Stars, Sleep, Dwelling

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge (Illustrated)”, p.439, Delphi Classics

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• Futility Move him into the sun - Gently its touch awoke him once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now The kind old sun will know. Think how it wakes the seeds, - Woke, once, the clays of a cold star. Are limbs, so dear-achieved, are sides, Full-nerved -still warm -too hard to stir? Was it for this the clay grew tall? -O what made fatuous sunbeams toil To break earth's sleep at all?

  Wilfred Owen

  Morning, Stars, Kindness

  1918 'Futility', collected in Poems (published1920).

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• Go play with the towns you have built of blocks, The towns where you would have bound me! I sleep in my earth like a tired fox, And my bufdfalo have found me.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Block, Tired, Sleep

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• Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was aery light, from pure digestion bred.

  John Milton

  Sleep, Light, Pearls

  John Milton (1853). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.118

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• Who knows but on their sleep may rise Such light as never heaven let through To lighten earth from Paradise?

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Sleep, Light, Heaven

  Algernon Charles Swinburne (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne (Illustrated)”, p.1322, Delphi Classics

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• You are present in your life on earth at this moment for the purposes of living, loving, learning, and growing. Be assured that life can reliably provide a wide variety of adventures, experiences, and situations that may require you to draw from the depths of your being. Your level of self-awareness and manner of expression can determine the quality of living you experience. Why? Because you get back what you give out.

  John Templeton

  Life, Adventure, Self

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• Life is not something to be lived through: it is something to be lived up to. It is a privilege, not a penal servitude of so many decades on earth.

  William George Jordan

  Life, Privilege, Decades

  William George Jordan (2007). “The Majesty of Calmness”, p.44, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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• Life is brimming with things to be discovered and known, skills to be mastered, challenges to be overcome. And when you are discouraged, dig a hole in the earth and think of the possibilities. So many things can be planted in your lifetime, skills that once mastered will bear fruit forever. . . . Pluck up some enthusiasm for the business of life, for the loamy matter that supports us all. Become a handyman and spread your skills wide, digging deeper into the earth's crust to uncover its secrets.

  Christopher Kimball

  Life, Thinking, Skills

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• The only creature on earth whose natural habitat is a zoo is the zookeeper.

  Robert Breault

  Zoos, Animal, Habitat

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• More than an institution, more than a tradition, more than a society, Masonry is one of the forms of Divine life upon earth.

  Joseph Fort Newton

  Masonic, Tradition, Divine

  Joseph Fort Newton (2013). “The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry”, p.211, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Every man on earth is sick with the fever of sin, with the blindness of sin and is overcome with its fury. As sins consist mostly of malice and pride, it is necessary to treat everyone who suffers from the malady of sin with kindness and love. This is an important truth, which we often forget. Very often we act in the opposite manner: we add malice to malice by our anger, we oppose pride with pride. Thus, evil grows within us and does not decrease; it is not cured - rather it spreads

  John of Kronstadt

  Kindness, Pride, Men

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• Aretha with no goals, eternally single & one step soft of heaven/ let it be understood that she owns this melody along with her emotional diplomats & her earth & her musical secrets

  Bob Dylan

  Emotional, Goal, Heaven

  Bob Dylan (2008). “Tarantula”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Our Constitution is the envy of the world, as it should be for it is the grand design of the finest nation on earth.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Envy, Design, Democracy

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• Human beings are not inevitable, and our brief existence is not preordained to be extended into the distant future. If Homo sapiens is to have a continued presence on earth, humankind will reevaluate its sense of place in the world and modify its strong species-centric stewardship of the planet. Our collective concepts of morality and ethics have a direct impact on our species' ultimate fate.

  Jeff Schweitzer

  Atheist, Strong, Fate

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• It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.

  Alain de Botton

  Atheist, People, Priorities

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• I am the greatest advocate of the Constitution of the United States there is on the earth. In my feelings I am always ready to die for the protection of the weak and oppressed in their just rights. The only fault I find with the Constitution is, it is not broad enough to cover the whole ground.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Freedom, America, Rights

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• The eyes are witnesses that the heavens revolve in the space of twenty- four hours. But certain men, either from the love of novelty, or to make a display of ingenuity, have concluded that the earth moves; and they maintain that neither the eighth sphere nor the sun revolves....Now, it is a want of honesty and decency to assert such notions publicly, and the example is pernicious. It is the part of a good mind to accept the truth as revealed by God and to acquiesce in it.

  Philipp Melanchthon

  Honesty, Moving, Eye

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• The stars associated with the solar system, such as the planets and asteroids (and it should be remembered that the term star in Biblical usage applies to any heavenly body other than the sun and moon) would be particularly likely to be involved, in the view of the heavy concentration of angels, both bad and evil, around the planet Earth.

  Henry M. Morris

  Stars, Angel, Biblical

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• Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth.

  Jeannine Parvati Baker

  Healing, Birth

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• The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

  William Wordsworth

  Sunshine, Passed Away, Birth

  'Ode. Intimations of Immortality' (1807) st. 1

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• Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth.

  William Wordsworth

  Vanity, Evening, Birth

  William Wordsworth (1847). “The Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.267

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• The problem of birth control and voluntary barrenness is poisoning the very fountains of life and defying God's injunction to multiply and replenish the earth.

  Hugh B. Brown

  Birth Control, Problem, Fountain

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