"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

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"Loveliest of lovely things are they on earth that soonest pass away. The rose that lives its little hour is prized beyond the sculptured flower."

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

Voltaire, French Writer

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

Kurt Vonnegut, American Author

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"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."

Rainer Maria Rilke, German Poet

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual)."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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

Lord Byron, British 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."

John Steinbeck, American Author

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

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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

Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese Philosopher

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"Thine eyes are springs in whose serene And silent waters heaven is seen. Their lashes are the herbs that look On their young figures in the brook."

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"A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty."

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"Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness."

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"Weep not that the world changes - did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep."

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"Go forth under the open sky, and list To Nature's teachings."

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"Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster - children into strength and athletic proportion."

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"Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger."

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"The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at."

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