Mark Twain Quotes, Moon Quotes, Men Quotes

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

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Virtue could see to do what Virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon where in the flat sea sunk.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Moon Quotes , Light Quotes

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Moon Quotes , Leader Quotes

The moon gives you light, and the bugles and the drums give you music, and my heart, O my soldiers, my veterans, my heart gives you love.

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Tags : Walt Whitman Quotes , Heart Quotes , Moon Quotes

Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities.

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Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Dog Quotes , Moon Quotes

I want to be the first black man on the moon

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There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Moon Quotes , Opposites Quotes

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Moon Quotes , Night Quotes

There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.

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A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Moon Quotes

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Girl Quotes , Moon Quotes

The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Angel Quotes , Moon Quotes

The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Fall Quotes , Moon Quotes

O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Moon Quotes , Circles Quotes

I suppose we shall soon travel by air-vessels; make air instead of sea voyages; and at length find our way to the moon, in spite of the want of atmosphere.

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Tags : Lord Byron Quotes , Moon Quotes , Air Quotes

The Moon! Artemis! the great goddess of the splendid past of men! Are you going to tell me she is a dead lump?

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Past Quotes , Moon Quotes

If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.

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Tags : Albert Einstein Quotes , Taken Quotes , Moon Quotes

The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Stars Quotes , Moon Quotes