Orbs Quotes
42 quotes by 33 authors
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Oft in the tranquil hour of night, When stars illume the sky, I gaze upon each orb of light, And wish that thou went by.
— George Linley
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Every man is an infinitely repelling orb, and holds his individual being on that condition.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence.
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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To most people, I fancy, the stars are beautiful; but if you asked why, they would be at a loss to reply, until they remembered…
— George Santayana
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Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.
— Charles Henry Parkhurst
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There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings.
— William Shakespeare
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False taste is always busy to mislead those that are entering upon the regions of learning; and the traveller, uncertain of his way, and forsaken…
— Samuel Johnson
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How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our…
— Christiaan Huygens
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If astronomy teaches anything, it teaches that man is but a detail in the evolution of the universe, and the resemblant though diverse details are…
— Percival Lowell
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How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and…
— William Shakespeare
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From Man or Angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge, His secrets, to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire.…
— John Milton
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There’s something about Olivia de Havilland that has always set her apart from other actresses. Maybe it’s the combination of warmth, sensitivity and intelligence she…
— Robert Osborne
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We find, therefore, under this orderly arrangement, a wonderful symmetry in the universe, and a definite relation of harmony in the motion and magnitude of…
— Johannes Kepler
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The ancients had little doubt about the true shape of the earth: "It's [the world's] shape has the rounded appearance of a perfect sphere. This…
— Pliny the Elder
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That mighty orb of song, The divine Milton.
— William Wordsworth
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Loaves of bread remind us of sunlight, but when we are inside that orb,we lose interest in building ovens,in millwork and the preparation of fields…
— Rumi
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The dawn came - not the flaming sky that promises storm, but a golden dawn of infinite promise. The birds came flying up out of…
— Elizabeth Goudge
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Astronomers have built telescopes which can show myriads of stars unseen before; but when a man looks through a tear in his own eye, that…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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These eyes, tho' clear To outward view of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot, Nor to their idle orbs doth…
— John Milton
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What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
— Philip James Bailey
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