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“Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be the aspect of the stars, the book of nature is a maze, dreams are a lie, and every sign a falsehood.”

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Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.”

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Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Great art allows you to transcend your mortal frame and to reach for the stars. I think great science does the same thing.”

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Author:Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

“Mortal as I am, I know that I am born for a day. But when I follow at my pleasure the serried multitude of the stars in their circular course, my feet no longer touch the earth.”

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Author:Ptolemy

“I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods.”

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Author:Ptolemy

“The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.”

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Book:Poems ... To which is added a memoir of the author. A new edition, with illustrations

Source: Poems ... To which is added a memoir of the author. A new edition, with illustrations