"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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"Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't."

Richard Bach, American Novelist

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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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"The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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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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"The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities."

Ayn Rand, Russian Writer

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"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth."

John Lennon, English Musician

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"Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again."

Henri Cartier-Bresson, French Photographer

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"Heaven would indeed be heaven if lovers were there permitted as much enjoyment as they had experienced on earth."

Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian 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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"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be."

Max Lucado, American Clergyman

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

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"A stable, changeless state, 'twere cause indeed to weep."

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

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"To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language."

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

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

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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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"Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully."

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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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