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The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth... these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.
Henry David Thoreau
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It is the stars,
The stars above us, govern our conditions.
William Shakespeare
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Authors may be divided into three classes—shooting stars, planets, and fixed stars.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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In childhood we fancied ourselves walled in by the horizon, as by a glass bell, and doubted not by distant travel we should reach the baths of the descending sun and stars. On experiment the horizon flies before us and leaves us on an endless common, sheltered by mo glass bell.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.
Albert Einstein
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Surely it is a great thing to increase the numerous host of fixed stars previously visible to the unaided vision, adding countless more which have never before been seen, exposing these plainly to the eye in numbers ten times exceeding the old and familiar stars.
Galileo Galilei
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I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars.
Rumi
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Do you imagine the universe is agitated? Go into the desert at night and look out at the stars. This practice should answer the question..... The master settles her mind as the universe settles the stars in the sky. By connecting her mind with the subtle origin, she calms it. Once calmed, it naturally expands, and ultimately her mind becomes as vast and immeasurable as the night sky.
Lao Tzu
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And thence we issued forth again to see the stars.
Dante Alighieri
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Is this the end of all that primal force Which, in its changes being still the same, From eyeless Chaos cleft its upward course, Through ravenous seas and whirling rocks and flame, Till the suns met in heaven and began Their cycles, and the morning stars sang, and the Word was Man!
Oscar Wilde
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As oft, from heaven unfixed, shoot flying stars, And trail their locks behind them.
Virgil
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There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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In our science and philosophy, even, there is commonly no true and absolute account of things. The spirit of sect and bigotry has planted its hoof amid the stars. You have only to discuss the problem, whether the stars are inhabited or not, in order to discover it.
Henry David Thoreau
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We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!
Theodore Roosevelt
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That astronomer well performs his office who predicts with the greatest measure of approximation the motions and situations of the stars: but he does better and is held worthy of the greater praise who in addition to this furnishes us with true opinions concerning the form of the world.
Johannes Kepler
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"What are fireworks like?" she asked. "They are like the Aurora Borealis," said the King. "only much more natural. I prefer them to stars myself, as you always know when they are going to appear."
Oscar Wilde
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For three hundred years now, the Christian astronomer has known that his Deity didn't make the stars in those tremendous six days; but the Christian astronomer doesn't enlarge upon that detail. Neither does the priest.
Mark Twain
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Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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As the stars looked to me when I was a shepherd in Assyria, they look to me now as a New-Englander.
Henry David Thoreau
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We begin with friendships, and all our youth is a reconnoitering and recruiting of the holy fraternity they shall combine for thesalvation of men. But so the remoter stars seem a nebula of united light, yet there is no group which a telescope will not resolve; and the dearest friends are separated by impassable gulfs.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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At last, in the dead of the night, when the street was very still indeed, Little Dorrit laid the heavy head upon her bosom, and soothed her to sleep. And thus she sat at the gate, as it were alone; looking up at the stars, and seeing the clouds pass over them in their wild flight-which was the dance at Little Dorrit's party.
Charles Dickens
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Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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One microscopic glittering point; then another; and another, and still another; they are scarcely perceptible, yet they are enormous. This light is a focus; this focus, a star; this star, a sun; this sun, a universe; this universe, nothing. Every number is zero in the presence of the infinite.
Victor Hugo
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The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars.
William Shakespeare
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Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.
Dr. Seuss
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