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Letter "E" » earth
«There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.»
Author: Robert Green Ingersoll
(
Orator,
Statesman)
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About:
Atheism,
God,
Religion
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Keywords:
earth,
heaven,
Heaven on Earth,
liberty,
on earth,
On Liberty,
tyrant,
worship,
worshipping
«Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(
Novelist,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
aim,
earth,
get,
heaven,
Heaven on Earth,
neither,
take aim,
thrown,
throw in,
throw out,
throw up
«And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
bare,
bared,
barer,
bares,
barest,
baring,
delights,
earth,
feet,
hair,
Long To,
play,
the Earth,
winds
«All the treasures of earth cannot bring back one lost moment»
«A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(
Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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About:
Happiness
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Keywords:
bear,
bear on,
bear up,
earth,
hell,
hell on earth,
lifetime,
no Hell,
No Man,
on earth,
would-be
«As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(
Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
again,
again and again,
deep,
deeps,
Deep Thought,
dominate,
dominated by,
earth,
footstep,
in the mind,
kind,
kindest,
kind of,
lives,
make,
mental,
mind,
must,
over,
over and over,
path,
pathway,
pathways,
physical,
single,
singled,
singles,
singling,
the Earth,
The Walking,
think,
think over,
thought,
thoughts,
walk,
walk about,
walk of life,
walk out,
walk out of,
wish,
wish well
«Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
earth,
feelings,
give in,
overly,
possession,
sensitive,
shaky,
too much,
unhappier,
unhappiest,
unhappy
«Broad, wholesome, charitable views ... can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
acquired,
broad,
broadest,
broads,
charitable,
corner,
cornered,
earth,
little,
the Earth,
vegetate,
vegetated,
vegetates,
vegetating,
views,
view as,
wholesome
«Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
above,
at peace,
beautiful,
Beautiful Life,
brown,
browned,
browning,
browns,
death,
earth,
forget,
forgive,
Forgive and forget,
For No One,
grasses,
grassing,
have,
head,
head up,
in no time,
In the,
lay out,
lie,
lie in,
life,
listen,
listen in,
morrow,
morrows,
must,
musts,
no.,
no,
No Wave,
one at a time,
Only Yesterday,
peace,
silence,
silences,
silencing,
soft,
The Brown,
The Forgotten,
time,
Time Life,
to be,
waving,
with,
yesterday
«Earth laughs in flowers.»