Robert Louis Stevenson Quotes, Night Quotes, Sky Quotes

My tea is nearly ready and the sun has left the sky; It's time to take the window to see Leerie going by; For every night at tea-time and before you take your seat, With lantern and with ladder he comes posting up the street.

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Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt. (They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Sea Quotes , Sky Quotes

It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Stars Quotes , Sky Quotes

The best belongs to me and mine; and if we are not given it, we take it: the best food, the purest sky, the most robust thoughts, the fairest women!

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Sky Quotes , Robust Quotes

Happier of happy though I be, like them I cannot take possession of the sky, mount with a thoughtless impulse, and wheel there, one of a mighty multitude whose way and motion is a harmony and dance magnificent.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Sky Quotes , Way Quotes

But you the pathways of the sky Found first, and tasted heavenly springs, Unfettered as the lark that sings, And knew strange raptures, - though we sigh, "Poor Iccarus!"

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Tags : Florence Earle Coates Quotes , Spring Quotes , Sky Quotes

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Stars Quotes , Sky Quotes

Ingratitude is surely the chief of the intellectual sins of man. He takes his political benefits for granted, just as he takes the skies and the seasons for granted.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Men Quotes , Sky Quotes

I live and reign since I have abandoned those pleasures which you by your praises extol to the skies. [Lat., Vivo et regno, simul ista reliqui Quae vos ad coelum effertis rumore secundo.]

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Tags : Horace Quotes , Sky Quotes , Reign Quotes

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Sky Quotes , Arms Quotes

Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

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Tags : Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes , Blue Quotes , Sky Quotes

White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Swans Quotes , Sky Quotes

A poem is made up of thoughts, each of which filled the whole sky of the poet in its turn.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Sky Quotes , Poet Quotes

The Tao belongs neither to knowing nor not knowing. Knowing is false understanding; not knowing is blind ignorance. If you really understand the Tao beyond doubt, it's like the empty sky. Why drag in right and wrong?

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Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Ignorance Quotes , Sky Quotes

Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.

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Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Race Quotes , Sky Quotes

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Hard Work Quotes , Sky Quotes

And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Sky Quotes

I cannot imagine anyone looking at the sky and denying God.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Sky Quotes , Aviation Quotes

Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together

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Tags : Adele Quotes , Fall Quotes , Sky Quotes

And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself," he cried, "But that is all.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Sky Quotes