Earth Quotes - Page 39

• No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

  James E. Talmage

  Women, Mets, Effects

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• Earth's noblest thing,-a woman perfected.

  James Russell Lowell

  Women

  James Russell Lowell (1857). “Miscellaneous poems. Memorial verses. Sonnets. I-XXVII. L'Envoi. Vision of Sir Launfal”, p.11

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• The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of their ghostly forms till darkness came again.

  Charles Dickens

  Morning, Nature, Stars

  Charles Dickens (1872). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.333

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• Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked spectral, and so did the pale stars: while the cold eastern glare, expressionless as to heat or colour, with the eye of the firmament quenched, might have been likened to the stare of the dead.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Stars, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1873). “A Cyclopedia of the Best Thoughts of Charles Dickens”, p.317

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• The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Fire, Light, Air

  "A Treatise on Painting: the Painting Art".

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• This process, this method necessary to man's survival and prosperity upon the earth, has often been derided as unduly or exclusively "materialistic." But it should be clear that what has happened in this activity proper to man's nature is a fusion of "spirit" and matter; man's mind, using the ideas it has learned, directs his energy in transforming and reshaping matter into ways to sustain and advance his wants and his life. Behind every "produced" good, behind every man-made transformation of natural resources, is an idea directing the effort, a manifestation of man's spirit.

  Murray Rothbard

  Freedom, Men, Ideas

  Murray N. Rothbard (2015). “The Ethics of Liberty”, p.31, NYU Press

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• Fish love the ocean. Snakes move like earth-fish inside a mountain,well away from seawater. Certain sunfish,though,turn snakes into ocean lovers.

  Rumi

  Freedom, Ocean, Moving

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• People talk about revelation, and say it has ceased; but what ignorance it bespeaks, when man knows not the least thing on earth without revelation.

  Elias Hicks

  Ignorance, Men, Talking

  Elias Hicks (1828). “The Quaker, Being a Series of Sermons by Members of the Society of Friends ...”, p.223

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• It is the wind and the rain, O God, the cold and the storm that make this earth of yours to blossom and bear its fruit. So in our lives it is storm and stress and hurt and suffering that make real men and women bring the world's work to its highest perfection.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Hurt, Stress, Real

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• The purpose of life on earth is that the soul should grow - So Growl By doing what is right.

  Zelda Fitzgerald

  Spiritual, Soul, Purpose

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• This record has a lot of influences that I'd love to cover, like Marvin Gaye and Earth, Wind and Fire. Maybe I'll do some covers of my major influences during my live show.

  Jon Secada

  Fire, Wind, Records

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• On Spaceship Earth there are no passengers; everybody is a member of the crew. We have moved into an age in which everybody's activities affect everybody else.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Age, Spaceships, Crew

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• Why stay on the earth except to grow.

  Robert Browning

  Learning, Grows

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• There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so.

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  Uncles, Widowhood, Forget

  Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Thomas Moore (1833). “The works: With a biographical sketch”, p.10

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• When it passes towards the east, the sun begins to have less effect upon it, and a thin line on the edge of its bright side emits its splendour towards the earth.

  Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

  Aunt, East, Lines

  Marcus VITRUVIUS POLLIO, Joseph GWILT (1826). “The Architecture of M. Vitruvius Pollio in Ten Books, Translated from the Latin by J. Gwilt”, p.274

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• These men [medical doctors] plan ways of doubling their incomes and come to the public with the plea that they are sincerely interested in the health and welfare of our children and that they put over their income-increasing programs for the health of our babies and for the welfare of the school children. They are as cold-blooded as any class of criminals on the whole earth. Indeed, I know of no other class of criminals who live by crippling, maiming and killing babies and children.

  Herbert M. Shelton

  Baby, Children, School

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• Oh, my fellow men, do not defile your bodies with sinful foods. We have corn, we have apples bending down the branches with their weight, and grapes swelling on the vines. There are sweet-flavored herbs, and vegetables which can be cooked and softened over the fire, nor are you denied milk or thyme-scented honey. The earth affords a lavish supply of riches, of innocent foods, and offers you banquets that involve no bloodshed or slaughter; only beasts satisfy their hunger with flesh, and not even all of those, because horses, cattle, and sheep live on grass.

  Pythagoras

  Sweet, Horse, Men

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• Vegetarianism functioned as a purification. When you eat animals you are more under the law of necessity. You are heavy, you gravitate more towards the earth. When you are a vegetarian you are light and you are more under the law of grace, under the law of power, and you start gravitating towards the sky.

  Rajneesh

  Animal, Light, Vegetarianism

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Vegetarianism is a conscious effort, a deliberate effort, to get out of the heaviness that keeps you tethered to the earth so that you can fly - so that the flight from the alone to the alone becomes possible.

  Rajneesh

  Vegetarianism, Effort, Flight

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• Venice once was dear,
  The pleasant place of all festivity,
  The revel of the earth, the masque of Italy.

  Lord Byron

  Venice, Masque, Dear

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.84, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You can say that this is just what aerospace medicine is all about - to save the lives of the men who climb to the high reaches above the Earth and beyond this planet.

  Martin Caidin

  Men, Aerospace, Medicine

  Martin Caidin, Grace Caidin (1962). “Aviation and Space Medicine: Man Conquers the Vertical Frontier”

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• The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is almost matched by hospital owners and doctors.

  Jimmy Carter

  Powerful, Health, Doctors

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• God created the heavens and the earth to reveal His glory. Don't allow creation to eclipse and steal the worship God desires and deserves.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• Though not everyone can attend seminary, every Christian has a seminary between two covers - the Holy Bible. God's Word is a school that trains us for the work He has planned for us on earth.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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• When culture changes around us, God's standard of living does not. Even when we're engulfed by evil, the eyes of the Lord range to and fro throughout all the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to Him.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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