Earth
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There is nothing on this earth more to be prized than true friendship.
Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.
If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special', you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
There are dark shadows on the earth, but its lights are stronger in the contrast.
Democracy, pure democracy, has at least its foundation in a generous theory of human rights. It is founded on the natural equality of mankind. It is the cornerstone of the Christian religion. It is the first element of all lawful government upon earth.
America is made of different races and different religions, but we're all co-travelers on the spaceship Earth and must respect and help each other along the way.
I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it's a good place that we're all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.
I am very down to earth and practical.
Live as though it were your last day on earth. Some day you will be right.
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.
The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
We've stayed really normal and down to Earth I think, and haven't let the success thing go to our head.
The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.
All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.
Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.
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