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“Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!”

Soul Light Earth Sound Voice Issues Sweet Birth Elements Glory Fairs Clouds Luminous

Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“An assembly of the states, a court of justice, shows nothing so serious and grave as a table of gamesters playing very high; a melancholy solicitude clouds their looks; envy and rancor agitate their minds while the meeting lasts, without regard to friendship, alliances, birth or distinctions.”

Mind Looks States Shows Lasts Justice Serious Birth Regard Tables Court Meetings Clouds Envy Graves Distinction Gambling Melancholy Alliances Assembly Agitate Solicitude Rancor

Author:Jean de la Bruyere

“No distinction is 'tween man and man, But as his virtues add to him a glory Or vices cloud him.”

Men Virtue Birth Glory Add Clouds Vices Distinction Tweens

Author:William Habington

“Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth, Near to the king in blood, and near in love Till you did make him misinterpret me-- Have stooped my neck under your injuries And sighed my English breath in foreign clouds, Eating the bitter bread of banishment, Whilst you have fed upon my signories, Disparked my parks and felled my forest woods, From my own windows torn my household coat, Rased out my imprese, leaving me no sign, Save men's opinions and my living blood, To show the world I am a gentleman.”

Source: King Richard II: Third Series

“But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets.”

Years Reason Half Known Sun Four Planets Birth Years Ago Clouds Billions Dust Gas Transformed Solar System

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you.”

Looks Persons Form Impossible Birth Died Clouds Beloved Beloved Person

Author:Nhat Hanh

“Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come.”

Inspirational Sleep Forget Baby Birth Glory Clouds Forgetfulness Eulogy Infancy Is Funeral Memorial

Author:William Wordsworth