"A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts." —WORDSWORTH."
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"How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?"
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"Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky."
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"All our pompe the earth covers."
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"Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes"
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"All roads lead to the earth; the abyss leads to God. Jump!"
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"The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals."
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"Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop."
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"Sometimes he could almost forget that it was there, the way you forget about the sky or the earth underfoot, but there were other times when it seemed as if there was nothing else in the world."
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"And I refused to make any sacrifices; for nothing on earth seemed more valuable than my peace of mind, my pleasure and my acclaim."
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"To be born into this earth is to be born into uncongenial surroundings, hence to be born into a romance."
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"And pray where in earth or heaven are there prudent marriages-Might as well talk about prudent suicides."
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"But there is in everything a reasonable division of labour. I have written the book, and nothing on earth would induce me to read it."
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"A mystic is a man who separates heaven and earth even if he enjoys them both."
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"I said, 'If other beings besides us exist on Earth, why didn't we meet them a long time ago?"
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"The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it."
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"The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation."
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"Yet earth has never child she may not slay, Nor sea a lover that she cannot kill."
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"Some interests have got a footing on the earth which we have not made sufficient allowance for."
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"New earths, new themes expect us."
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