"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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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish Scientist

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"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."

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"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth."

Neil Armstrong, American Astronaut

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"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."

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"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"

Jules Verne, French Author

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"It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London."

Thomas de Quincey, English Author

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"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"

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"There is no glory in star or blossom till looked upon by a loving eye; There is no fragrance in April breezes till breathed with joy as they wander by."

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"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."

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"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."

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"The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle."

"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice."

"I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth."

"Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth."

"Those who know that the consensus of many centuries has sanctioned the conception that the earth remains at rest in the middle of the heavens as its center, would, I reflected, regard it as an insane pronouncement if I made the opposite assertion that the earth moves."

"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."

"The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future?"

"It was a Sunday afternoon, wet and cheerless; and a duller spectacle this earth of ours has not to show than a rainy Sunday in London."

"Not everybody is absolutely stupid. Why on earth would I be racist, what would I be trying to achieve?"

"Pouring forth its seas everywhere, then, the ocean envelops the earth and fills its deeper chasms."

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

"The groves were God's first temples."

"The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within."

"Pain dies quickly, and lets her weary prisoners go; the fiercest agonies have shortest reign."

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

"And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death."