With a clear sky, a bright sun, and a gentle breeze, you will have friends in plenty; but let fortune frown, and… — Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Copy Share Image
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“215. As in the stellar firmament there are sometimes two suns which determine the path of one planet, and in certain cases… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
So all night long the storm roared on: The morning broke without a sun; In tiny spherule traced with lines Of Nature’s… — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
In the great wealth, the great firmament of your nation's generosities this particular choice may perhaps be found by future generations as… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
And really, the reason we think of death in celestial terms is that the visible firmament, especially at night (above our blacked-out… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Melissa Pritchard's prose, that darkly lyrical firmament, is brightened by the dizzy luminous arrangement of her stars and satellites, her great gifts… — Antonya Nelson Copy Share Image
In the firmament of science Mayer and Joule constitute a double star, the light of each being in a certain sense complementary… — John Tyndall Copy Share Image
Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering… — Marianne Bluger Copy Share Image
What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars?… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
As long as the firmament of the You is spread over me, the tempests of causality cower at my heels, and whirl… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
When I confront a human being as my Thou and speak the basic word I-Thou to him, then he is no thing… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
The Poet's License! 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of… — John Godfrey Saxe Copy Share Image
As freely as the firmament embraces the world, so mercy must encircle friend and foe. The sun poursforth impartially his beams through… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth,… — John Donne Copy Share Image
I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Belief sloshes around in the firmament like lumps of clay spiralling into a potter's wheel. That's how gods get created, for example.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird,… — John Milton Copy Share Image
A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be… — Tycho Brahe Copy Share Image
People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image