Firmament Quotes
71 quotes by 59 authors
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Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to their…
— John Milton
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Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose…
— Marianne Bluger
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly believed that the Earth was…
— Anatole France
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Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must…
— John Ruskin
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And before my Soul took me to task I was hard of hearing; I heard only tumult and uproar. But now I am all ears…
— Khalil Gibran
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If the Word of God is living and powerful, and if the Lord does all things whatsoever he wills; if he said, "Let there be…
— John of Damascus
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From his observations, he concluded that it [Tycho's supernova] was not some kind of comet or a fiery meteor, whether these be generated beneath the…
— Tycho Brahe
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But the context of religion is a great background for doing science. In the words of Psalm 19, 'The heavens declare the glory of God…
— Arthur Leonard Schawlow
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Today the brightest light in the Scottish political firmament has gone out.
— Jim Sillars
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In the isolation of his clear, cold intellect, the sceptic abides in a glacial and spectral universe. No glow from the affections lights up the…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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People gave ear to an upstart astrologer who strove to show that the earth revolves, not the heavens or the firmament, the sun and the…
— Martin Luther
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Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up…
— Vincent Van Gogh
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I have passed the mountain peak and my soul is soaring in the firmament of Complete and unbounded freedom; I am in comfort, I am…
— Khalil Gibran
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To set foot on the soil of the asteroids, to lift by hand a rock from the Moon, to observe Mars from a distance of…
— Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Among all his creatures in heaven or earth, God hath not made any like unto the sun in the firmament, the beams whereof are beautiful…
— John Jewel
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God has given you a spirit with wings on which to soar into the spacious firmament of Love and Freedom. Is it not pitiful than…
— Khalil Gibran
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And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's…
— John Donne
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Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars,…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bianca Nazario stands at the end of the world. The firmament above is as blue as the summer skies of her childhood, mirrored in the…
— David Moles
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