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Sky Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Fly, dotard, fly! With thy wise dreams and fables of the sky.
- Where London's column, pointing at the skies, Like a tall bully, lifts the head, and lies.
- The meeting points the sacred hair dissever From the fair head, forever, and forever! Then flashed the living lightning from her eyes, And screams of…
- But thinks, admitted to that equal sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.
- No Senses stronger than his brain can bear. Why has not Man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, Man is not a Fly: What…
- Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.
- Oh, sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise. By mountains pil'd on mountains to the skies? Heav'n still with laughter the vain toil surveys,…
- Not half so swift the trembling doves can fly, When the fierce eagle cleaves the liquid sky; Not half so swiftly the fierce eagle moves,…
- In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the bless'd abodes,…
- Know then, unnumber'd Spirits round thee fly, The light Militia of the lower sky.
- The approach of night The skies yet blushing with departing light, When falling dews with spangles deck'd the glade, And the low sun had lengthen'd…
- Is there no bright reversion in the sky, For those who greatly think or bravely die?
More Sky Quotes
- This existence of ours is as transient as autumn clouds To watch the birth and death of beings is like looking at… — Gautama Buddha
- Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky,… — Sai Baba
- The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but… — Francis Bacon
- See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us. — Sylvia Browne
- How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer,… — Orison Swett Marden
- The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- When stars are in the quiet skies, Then most I pine for thee; Bend on me, then, thy tender eyes, As stars… — Ernst Gottlieb Baron
- She might have wept then, had not the sky begun to do it for her. — George R. R. Martin