Quotes with meteor

  • Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
  • An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair, And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.

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  • Abraham Cowley An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,
    And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
    Davideis, book ii, line 95. Compare: Loose his beard and hoary hair / Streamd like a meteor to the troubled air, Thomas Gray, The Bard, i. 2.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Jack London I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze than be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
    Jack London
    American writer (ps. by John Griffith Chaney) (1876 - 1916)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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