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"When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it."
"If the earth is fit for laughter then surely heaven is filled with it. Heaven is the birthplace of laughter."
"Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three, To make a new Thermopylæ!"
"So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day."
"They (the people of Puerto Rico) are truly the sweetest people on earth."
"I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth."
"No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity"
"I like down-to-earth people."
"Why can’t our job here on earth be simply to inspire each other?"
"God sent me on earth. He send me to do something, and nobody can stop me. If God want to stop me, then I stop. Man never can."
"We should stop going around babbling about how we're the greatest democracy on earth, when we're not even a democracy. We are a sort of militarised republic."
"Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts."
"I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth."
"Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking."
"It was not meant that the soul should cultivate the earth, but that the earth should educate and maintain the soul."
"The militant not the meek shall inherit the earth!"
"The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God."
"Discard everything except these few truths: we can live only in the present moment, in this brief now; all the rest of our life is dead and buried or shrouded in uncertainty. Short is the life we lead, and small our patch of earth."
"Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth."
"Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky."
