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“Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly.”

Stills Easy Nature Sky Lays Lakes Dragonflies

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“Château and hut, stone face and dangling figure, the red stain on the stone floor, and the pure water in the village well-thousands of acres of land-a whole province of France-all France itself-lay under the night sky, concentrated into a faint hairbreadth line. So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star.”

Source: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated)

“The bright, frosty day declined as they walked and spoke together. The sun dipped in the river far behind them, and the old city lay red before them, as their walk drew to a close. The moaning water cast its seaweed duskily at their feet, when they turned to leave its margin; and the rooks hovered above them with hoarse cries, darker splashes in the darkening air.”

Together Water Nature Walks Cities Behinds Sun Air Feet Cry Red Rivers Lays Casts Spokes Margins Moaning Seaweed Darkening

Book:The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Source: The Mystery of Edwin Drood

“I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”

“Nature and nature's laws lay hid in the night. God said, Let Newton be! and all was light!”

Said Light Law Science Night Nature Lays Mathematician Newton God And Science Science God Funny Science

Author:Alexander Pope

“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.”

Men Humans Made Facts Law Nature Human Beings Economy Economic Men And Women Economics Lays Starving Economic Development Economy And Economics

Book:The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Source: The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours.”

World Littles Nature Environment Too Much Waste Late Lays Spending Boon Superhuman Powers

Author:William Wordsworth

“Lay aside all conceit Learn to read the book of Nature for yourself. Those who have succeeded best have followed for years some slim thread which once in a while has broadened out and disclosed some treasure worth a life-long search.”

Years Long Book Success Science Nature Lays Treasure Thread Long Life Conceit Slim

Author:Louis Agassiz