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A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
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Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.
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Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.
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Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
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All social rules and all relations between individuals are eroded by a cash economy, avarice drags Pluto himself out of the bowels of the earth.
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But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there.
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Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
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Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
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Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.
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God bless the devout Christians of this country. They are Israel's best friends on the earth.
Source: A Long Memorial Day American Spectator (1 June 2010) -
How earthy old people become, moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.
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I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals.
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If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
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In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world's youth.
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It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.
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Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
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Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.
Source: Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 19 -
Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.
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