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“Look for the stars, you'll say that there are none; / Look up a second time, and, one by one, / You mark them twinkling out with silvery light, / And wonder how they could elude the sight!”

Looks Light Stars Wonder Sight Mark Look Up Elude Twinkling

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“The love of fame is too high and delicate a feeling in the mind to be mixed up with realities, it is a solitary abstraction. * * * A name "fast anchored in the deep abyss of time" is like a star twinkling in the firmament, cold, silent, distant, but eternal and sublime; and our transmitting one to posterity is as if we should contemplate our translation to the skies.”

Ifs Should Mind Feelings Reality Names Stars Sky Cold Fame Eternal Silent Delicate Contemplating Solitary Sublime Abyss Abstraction Translations Posterity Firmament Twinkling

Author:William Hazlitt

“Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.”

Earth Night Stars Illumination Twinkling Twinkling Stars

Author:John Clare

“No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, No gem that twinkling hangs from Beauty's ears, Not the bright stars which Night's blue arch adorn, Nor rising suns that gild the vernal morn, Shine with such lustre as the tear that flows Down Virtue's manly cheek for others' woes.”

Night Stars Beauty Sun Virtue Tears Flow Ears Blue Shining Fortune Rising Cheeks Woe Pearls Radiant Manly Gems Arches Twinkling Bright Star Twinkling Stars Radiant Beauty

Book:Containing the loves of the plants

Source: Containing the loves of the plants

“I was still blind, but twinkling stars did dance Throughout my being's limitless expanse, Nothing had yet drawn close, only at distant stages I found myself, a mere suggestion sensed in past and future ages.”

Stills Age Past Found Stars Stage Blind Mere Suggestions Limitless Expanse Twinkling Twinkling Stars

Author:Novalis

“Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away.”

Years Stills Happens Today Night Stars Cities Clear Sky Breaths Moved Night Sky Jaded Dwellers Twinkling Nocturnal Twinkling Stars

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by planets fully as interesting as those in our Solar system.”

Children Light Stars Interesting Sun Planets Mere Perceive Solar System Twinkling Points Of Light

Author:Martin Rees

“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 sky was clear - remarkably clear - and the twinkling of all the stars seemed to be but throbs of one body, timed by a common pulse.”

Body Stars Common Clear Sky Pulse Twinkling Twinkling Stars

Book:FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

Source: FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (British Classics Series): Historical Romance Novel

“Gentlemen, the character of Washington is among the most cherished contemplations of my life. It is a fixed star in the firmament of great names, shining without twinkling or obscuration, with clear, steady, beneficent light.”

Character Light Names Stars Clear Shining Fixed Gentleman Contemplation Steady Firmament Twinkling

Book:The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of Daniel Webster, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address

Source: The Union Text Book: Containing Selections from the Writings of Daniel Webster, The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and Washington's Farewell Address

“Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing.”

Way Universe Stars Knowing Corners Clever Beast Rationality Once Upon A Time Solar System Twinkling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche

“Look out into the universe and contemplate the glory of God. Observe the stars, millions of them, twinkling in the night sky, all with a message of unity, part of the very nature of God.”

Life Looks Night Universe Stars Millions Sky Messages Glory Unity Contemplating Glory Of God Night Sky Twinkling Stars In The Night Sky Twinkling Stars

Author:Sai Baba