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“Is there evil but on earth? Or pain in every peopled sphere? Well, be grateful for the sounding watchword "Evolution" here.”

People Wells Earth Pain Evil Evolution Grateful Spheres Be Grateful

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon?...when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fathers. So it is in regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized”

Thinking Giving Littles Made Light Earth Father Sun Planets Moon Regard Shining Ignorant Evening Vain Spheres

Author:Brigham Young

“The ideas of people in general are not raised higher than the roofs of the houses. All their interests extend over the earth's surface in a layer of that thickness. The meeting-house steeple reaches out of their sphere.”

People Ideas Earth House Interest Higher Meetings Raised Surface Spheres Reach Out Layers Roof Steeples Thickness

Book:Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of

“The sphere of the attractive virtue which is in the moon extends as far as the earth, and entices up the waters; but as the moon flies rapidly across the zenith, and the waters cannot follow so quickly, a flow of the ocean is occasioned in the torrid zone towards the westward.”

Earth Water Virtue Moon Ocean Flow Attractive Zone Spheres Zenith

Author:Johannes Kepler

“About the fearful sphere which we inhabit, whose centre may be calculated and whose circumference is physically established, there spin metaphors whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference shows itself only through holes in the dark.”

May Shows Earth Dark Metaphor Holes Spheres Fearful Centre

Book:The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts

Source: The Rudiments of Paradise: Various Essays on Various Arts

“If today there is a proper American "sphere of influence" it is this fragile sphere called earth upon which all men live and share a common fate--a sphere where our influence must be for peace and justice.”

Ifs Men Today Earth Justice Common Fate Share Influence Fragile Spheres Peace And Justice Sphere Of Influence

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“In the heraldry of heaven goodness precedes greatness; so on earth it is more powerful. The lowly and the lovely may frequently do more in their own limited sphere than the gifted.”

May Earth Heaven Powerful Greatness Goodness Lovely Spheres Gifted

Author:Thomas Hartwell Horne