A Child of Happiness always seems like an old soul living in a new body, and her face is very serious until… — Anne Cameron Copy Share Image
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“ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I went to the springs while the sun was still up, and sitting on a rocky outcrop above the cave mouth I… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The evergreen! How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature! In… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
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Love is the source of our greatest errors; but when it is even partially refined it is the energy and the passion… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
I love anything that involves the ocean. Swimming, snorkelling or surfing are all fun, which distracts from your mind that you are… — Samantha Stosur Copy Share Image
I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals… — Michael Myers Copy Share Image
Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
In this model, the sun is a very tiny speck of dust indeed-a speck less than a three-thousandth of an inch in… — James Jeans Copy Share Image
The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is… — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
There is no other course but the one we have chosen, except the course of humiliation and darkness, after which there will… — Saddam Hussein Copy Share Image
Days, when the ball of our vision Had eagles that flew unabashed to sun; When the graps on the bow was decision,… — George Meredith Copy Share Image
God belongs to all free beings. He is the life of all, the salvation of all ~faithful and unfaithful, just and unjust,… — John Climacus Copy Share Image
Nature is a greater and more perfect art, the art of God; though, referred to herself, she is genius; and there is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The days were brief and attenuated and the season appeared to be fixed - neither summer nor winter, spring nor fall. A… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I still let myself be a fan of music and that motivates me to want to be better than certain people or… — Kid Ink Copy Share Image
“The three of us, each paralyzed in his own silence, contemplate the horizon, which the dawn lights up with a thousand fires;… — Yasmina Khadra Copy Share Image
At almost every step in life we meet with young men from whom we anticipate wonderful things, but of whom, after careful… — Nathaniel Hawthorne 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
The following passage is one of those cited by Copernicus himself in his preface to De Revolutionibus: "The Syracusan Hicetas, as Theophrastus… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
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Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
Did men but consider that the sun, moon, and stars, and every other object of the senses, are only so many sensations… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all.… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I remember Elvis as a young man hanging around the Sun Studios. Even then, I knew this kid had a tremendous talent.… — B. B. King Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
Jacob was simply a perpetually happy person, and he carried this happiness with him like an aura, sharing it with whoever was… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
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Men didn't understand that you couldn't let yourself be consumed with passion when there were so many people needing your attention, when… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
He continued on, on to the glacier, towards the dawn, from ridge to ridge, in deep, new-fallen snow, paying no heed to… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image