Jules Renard Quotes
On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard
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Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
Abraham Lincoln
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If you really want to know what Middle-earth is based on, it's my wonder and delight in the earth as it is, particularly the natural earth.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
Daniel Boone
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To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.
Lafcadio Hearn
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What allows us, as human beings, to psychologically survive life on earth, with all of its pain, drama, and challenges, is a sense of purpose and meaning.
Barbara De Angelis
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
Walter Savage Landor
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I like breakfast sandwiches, and the Krystal Sunriser might be the best breakfast sandwich on Earth. It has a really soft bun and sausage, eggs, and cheese on it. It's great if you're out until 5 or 6 in the morning and you happen to catch the 5:30 first shift. That's what I used to do when I played clubs; I would almost stay out until they opened.
Taylor Hicks
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I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.
Macaulay Culkin
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Together let us desire, conceive, and create the new structure of the future, which will embrace architecture and sculpture and painting in one unity and which will one day rise toward Heaven from the hands of a million workers like the crystal symbol of a new faith.
Walter Gropius
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Was there ever a nation on God's fair earth civilized from the bottom upward? Never; it is, ever was, and ever will be from the top downward that culture filters. The Talented Tenth rises and pulls all that are worth the saving up to their vantage ground.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
Abraham Lincoln
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I have two ambitions in life: one is to drink every pub dry, the other is to sleep with every woman on earth.
Oliver Reed
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The question of Heaven, the question of what happens after death, is one which a lot of people in our culture try to put off as long as they can, but sooner or later it suddenly swings round and looks them in the eye.
N. T. Wright
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As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow.
Paracelsus
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In their religion they are so uneven,That each man goes his own byway to heaven.
Daniel Defoe
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My ambition is much higher than independence. Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the Earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Within your magic web of hair, lies furledThe fire and splendour of the ancient world;The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;The songs that turned to gold the evening airWhen all the stars of heaven sang for joy.
Edith Sitwell
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O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!
Vanity
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The solar rays will kindle fire on the earth, by which a thing that is under the sky will be set on fire, and, being reflected by some obstacle, it will bend downwards.
Leonardo da Vinci
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If I want to put makeup on, then, cool, I'll do that. But it's not going to be my crutch.
Letitia Wright
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When the militias came to Wau, they would blast out 'Thriller' as they moved down the dirt streets.
Alek Wek
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I haven't left my house in days. I watch the news channels incessantly. All the news stories are about the election; all the commercials are Viagra and Cialis. Election, erection, election, erection! Either way we're screwed!
Bette Midler
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On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it.
Jules Renard
