"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."
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"There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth."
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"Nay, had I pow'r, I should Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, Uproar the universal peace, confound All unity on earth."
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"The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb."
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"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?"
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"I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!"
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"Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out."
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"Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling. She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling."
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"Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy."
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"Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."
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"O, where is loyalty? If it be banished from the frosty head, Where shall it find a harbor in the earth?"
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"Earth helped him with the cry of blood."
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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."
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"A power is passing from the earth."
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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."
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"A youth to whom was given So much of earth, so much of heaven."
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"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"
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"Earth's a howling wilderness, Truculent with fraud and force."
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"The world is upheld by the veracity of good men: they make the earth wholesome."
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