The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your fro...nt yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writers may be classified as meteors, planets, and fixed stars. A meteor makes a striking effect for a moment. You look up and cry... "There!" and it is gone forever. Planets and wandering stars last a much longer time. They often outshine the fixed stars and are confounded by them by the inexperienced; but this only because they are near. It is not long before they must yield their place; nay, the light they give is reflected only, and the sphere of their influence is confined to their orbit--their contemporaries. Their path is one of change and movement, and with the circuit of a few years their tale is told. Fixed stars are the only ones that are constant; their position in the firmament is secure; they shine with a light of their own; their effect today is the same as it was yesterday, because, having no parallax, their appearance does not alter with a difference in our standpoint. They belong not to one system, one nation only, but to the universe. And just because they are so very far away, it is usually many years before their light is visible to the inhabitants of this earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wave like a filao, shine like a poinciana tree, crack and moan like a bamboo, but find your woman's stride and change your step li...ke a brave woman, my beautiful one. And when you crack like a bamboo, when you sigh with weariness and disgust, moan and despair for yourself alone and never forget that somewhere on the earth a woman is glad to be alive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were you the earth, dear Love, and I the skies, My love should shine on you like to the Sun,... And look upon you with ten thousand eyes, Till heaven wax'd blind, and till the world were done. Whereso'er I am,--below, or else above you-- Whereso'er you are, my heart shall truly love you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be assured that every man's success is in proportion to his average ability. The meadow flowers spring and bloom where the waters ...annually deposit their slime, not where they reach in some freshet only. A man is not his hope, nor his despair, nor yet his past deed. We know not yet what we have done, still less what we are doing. Wait till evening, and other parts of our day's work will shine than we had thought at noon, and we shall discover the real purport of our toil. As when the farmer has reached the end of the furrow and looks back, he can tell best where the pressed earth shines most.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is indeed typical that you Earth people refuse to believe in the superiority of any world but your own. Children looking into a... magnifying glass, imagining the image you see is the image of your true size.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You may decry some of these scruples and protest that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in my philosoph...y. I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there are in heaven or earth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me enjoy the earth no less Because the all-enacting Might... That fashioned forth its loveliness Had other aims than my delight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »