Quotes with heavens

  • Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!

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  • Thomas Traherne A little grit in the eye destroyeth the sight of the very heavens, and a little malice or envy a world of joys. One wry principle in the mind is of infinite consequence.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Henry David Thoreau A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Kahlil Gibran And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • George Canning Give me the avowed, the erect, the manly foe, bold I can meet, perhaps may turn his blow! But of all plagues, good Heavens, thy wrath can send, save, save, oh save me from the candid friend!
    George Canning
    British statesman (1770 - 1827)
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  • Bethany Hamilton God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • George Farquhar Grant me some wild expressions, Heavens, or I shall burst.
    George Farquhar
    Irish playwright (1677 - 1707)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I can see how a man can look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Desiderius Erasmus It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.
    Desiderius Erasmus
    Dutch humanist and philosopher (1469 - 1536)
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • Anne Frank The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Johannes Kepler The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.
    Johannes Kepler
    German astronomer, mathematician and physicist (1572 - 1630)
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  • Carl Sagan The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Mark Twain There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Sir Walter Raleigh There is nothing exempt from the peril of mutation; the earth, heavens, and whole world is thereunto subject.
    Sir Walter Raleigh
    British courtier, writer (1552 - 1618)
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  • Immanuel Kant Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.
    Immanuel Kant
    German philosopher (1724 - 1804)
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  • William Shakespeare When beggars die there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
    Julius Caesar II, ii, 30-31
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Leon Battista Alberti When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
    Leon Battista Alberti
    Italian poet, painter, philosopher and musician (1404 - 1472)
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  • Bruce Lee You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like As Confucius say, but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens that people are different.
    Bruce Lee: The Lost Interview (1971)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Thomas Traherne You never enjoy the world aright, till the sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens and crowned with the stars.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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