Quotes with celestial

  • Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
  • Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
  • All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
  • Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
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  • John Milton Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Kelvin Throop III Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
    Kelvin Throop III
     
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  • Henry Miller I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the balcony. Nothing doing!
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Billy West It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
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  • George Washington Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Annie Besant Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.
    Annie Besant
    British socialist, activist and writer (1847 - 1933)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Thomas Traherne Your enjoyment of the world is never right, till every morning you awake in Heaven: see yourself in your Father's palace; and look upon the skies, the earth, and the air as celestial joys: having such a reverend esteem of all, as if you were among the angels.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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