"Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English Poet

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Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

Carl Sagan, American Scientist

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"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

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C. S. Lewis, British Author

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Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes."

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

"No waiting the beyond, no peering toward it,but longing to degrade not even death;we shall learn earthliness, and serve its ends,to feel its hands about us like a friend's."

"There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person."

"He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly?"

"When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it."

"It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth."

"Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere."

"Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair."

"I think it must be very hard to be one of the new young writers who are urged to put themselves forward when it may be the last thing on earth they'd be good at."

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"An ignorance of means may minister to greatness, but an ignorance of aims make it impossible to be great at all."

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"And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can."

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