"The great poems of heaven and hell have been written and the great poem of earth remains to be written."
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"And I or you pocketless of a dime, may purchase the pick of the earth."
"There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth."
"Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth."
"The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb."
"Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't?"
"I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!"
"Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out."
"Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling."
"Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy."
"Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."
"O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?"
"Earth helped him with the cry of blood."
"Meek Nature's evening comment on the shows That for oblivion take their daily birth From all the fuming vanities of earth."
"A power is passing from the earth."
"The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth."
"A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven."
"I am one of those people that believes that if I am going through something, somebody else out there among those billions of people living on this Earth is going through something similar, if not the same thing"
"Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force."
"The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome."