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Earth Quotes by John Milton
- How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! How glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There…
- What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and…
- Though all the winds of doctrine were let loose to play upon the earth, so Truth be in the field, we do injuriously by licensing…
- Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
- She what was honour knew, And with obsequious majesty approv'd My pleaded reason. To the nuptial bower I led her blushing like the morn; all…
- Son of Heav'n and Earth, Attend: that thou art happy, owe to God; That thou continuest such, owe to thyself, That is, to thy obedience;…
- Now morn, her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl, When Adam wak'd, so custom'd; for his sleep Was…
- Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot Which men call earth.
- Can any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment?
- If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.
- There swift return Diurnal, merely to officiate light Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
- Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation.
- What if Earth be but the shadow of Heaven and things therein - each other like, more than on Earth is thought?
- O shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace: and God…
- In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go…
- This having learnt, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all th'ethereal powers,…
More Earth Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
- Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann