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• The moon, the moon, so silver and cold, Her fickle temper has oft been told, Now shade--now bright and sunny-- But of all the lunar things that change, The one that shows most fickle and strange, And takes the most eccentric range, Is the moon--so called--of honey!

  Thomas Hood

  Shade, Honey, Eccentric

  Thomas Hood (1852). “Prose and verse”, p.162

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• The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Circles, Perfect, Water

  Nicolaus Copernicus (1978). “On the revolutions”

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• I know not that there is anything in nature more soothing to the mind than the contemplation of the moon, sailing, like some planetary bark, amidst a sea of bright azure. The subject is certainly hackneyed; the moon has been sung by poet and poetaster. Is there any marvel that it should be so?

  William Gilmore Simms

  Sea, Sailing, Mind

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• In the broad light of day mathematicians check their equations and their proofs, leaving no stone unturned in their search for rigour. But, at night, under the full moon, they dream, they float among the stars and wonder at the miracle of the heavens. They are inspired. Without dreams there is no art, no mathematics, no life.

  Michael Atiyah

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Michael Atiyah (2014). “Michael Atiyah Collected Works: 2002-2013”, p.267, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Man is now able to soar into outer space and reach up to the moon; but he is not moral enough to live at peace with his neighbor!

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Men, Space, Able

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• Escape from the black cloud that surrounds you.
  Then you will see your own light as radiant as the full moon.

  Rumi

  Clouds, Light, Black

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• He who would see old Hoghton right Must view it by the pale moonlight.

  William Hazlitt

  Views, Moonlight, Pale

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• Still and pale
  Thou movest in thy silver veil,
  Queen of the night! the filmy shroud
  Of many a mild, transparent cloud
  Hides, yet adorns thee.

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed

  Queens, Night, Clouds

  Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1859). “The poetical works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.10

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• The moon is brighter since the barn burned.

  Matsuo Basho

  Barns, Burned, Brighter

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• What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

  Thomas Merton

  Inspiring, Life Changing, Journey

  Thomas Merton (1970). “The Wisdom of the Desert: Sayings from the Desert Fathers of the Fourth Century”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• The spirit of God, like the sun, always gives all its light at once. The spirit of man resembles the pale moon, which has its phases, its absences and its returns, its lucidity and its spots, its fullness and its disappearance, which borrows all its light from the rays of the sun, and which still dares to intercept them on occasion.

  Victor Hugo

  God, Pride, Men

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• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Men, Feet, Space

  Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin E. Aldrin (199?). “First on the Moon: The Astronauts' Own Story”, Konecky & Konecky

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• For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or the magnificence of a full moon, but it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

  Richard Baker

  Insomnia, People, Sunrise

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• Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
  Pale in her anger washes all the air,
  That rheumatic diseases do abound;
  And through this distemperature we see
  The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts
  Fall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Science, Air

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 103

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• Waning moons their settled periods keep, to swell the billows and ferment the deep.

  Joseph Addison

  Periods

  Joseph Addison (1811). “The Works of the Right Honorable Joseph Addison”, p.206

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• You'll shoot the moon... put out the sun... when you love someone.

  Bryan Adams

  Music, When You Love Someone, Sun

  Song: When You Love Someone, 1997

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• Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

  Robert Burton

  Real, Mind, Devil

  Robert Burton (1824). “The Anatomy of Melancholy,: In which the Kinds, Causes, Consequences, and Cures of this English Malady, ... are -- "traced from Within Its Inmost Centre to Its Outmost Skin."”, p.178

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• And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sky, Yellow, Veils

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “Salome”, p.26, Broadview Press

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• I ignored your aura but it grabbed me by the hand, like the moon pulled the tide, and the tide pulled the sand.

  Talib Kweli

  Spiritual, Hands, Auras

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• Women, we might as well be dogs baying the moon as petitioners without the right to vote!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Dog, Might, Vote

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• If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

  William Blake

  Inspiring, Doubt, Sun

  William Blake, “Auguries Of Innocence”

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• The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Sunset, Night, Fire

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1840). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.177

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• I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Stars, World

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.85, Cosimo, Inc.

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• When I first looked back at the Earth, standing on the Moon I cried

  Alan Shepard

  Space, Earth, Firsts

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• The moon's a powerful mistress. She can reach through any wall or covering and work her wicked charms.

  Darren Shan

  Wall, Powerful, Wicked

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