Upon Earth Quotes
91 quotes by 68 authors
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O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
— Thomas Hood
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The devil is not only a liar, but also a murderer, he constantly seeks our life, and wreaks his anger whenever he can afflict our…
— Martin Luther
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I was wholly at peace, at ease and at rest, so that there was nothing upon earth which could have afflicted me. This lasted for…
— Julian of Norwich
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Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to…
— Thomas Paine
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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
— Francis Bacon
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Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power, that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers…
— John Quincy Adams
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We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the…
— Chiara Lubich
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Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament....There…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the whirlwind…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be…
— George Washington
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The Family is the Country of the heart. There is an angel in the Family who, by the mysterious influence of grace, of sweetness, and…
— Giuseppe Mazzini
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The will of the people is the source and the happiness of the people the end of all legitimate government upon earth.
— John Quincy Adams
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And, of all the things upon earth, I hold that a faithful friend is the best.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would…
— Thomas Paine
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Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior? That…
— John Quincy Adams
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Strange is our situation here upon earth.
— Albert Einstein
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And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old…
— Victor Hugo
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From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but…
— James Cook
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.. the word ecology, coined by the German biologist and philosopher Ernst Haeckel (initially as oecology) in 1866. derives from the Greek oikos, "referring originally…
— Warwick Fox
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Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear…
— H.G. Wells
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