Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes, Moon Quotes, Opposites Quotes

There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; "O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!" --or something to that effect.

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In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves.

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For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, ‘We came in peace for all Mankind.’ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.

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The debate's over. The people who dispute the international consensus on global warming are in the same category now with the people who think the moon landing was staged on a movie lot in Arizona.

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The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs the deep.

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If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out.

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Life and Reality are not things you can have for yourself unless you accord them to all others. They do not belong to particular persons any more than the sun, moon and stars.

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At the beginning of human history, as we struggled to light fires and to chisel fallen trees into rudimentary canoes, who could have predicted that long after we had managed to send men to the moon and areoplanes to Australasia, we would still have such trouble knowing how to tolerate ourselves, forgive our loved ones, and apologise for our tantrums?

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But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.

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If I were the moon, I know where I would fall down.

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Day is pushed out by day, and each new moon hastens to its death. [Lat., Truditur dies die, Novaeque pergunt interire lunae.]

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Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal.

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It is unconceivable that the whole Universe was merely created for us who live in this third-rate planet of a third-rate moon.

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Upon consideration of the central question of the moon's toughness there can be little doubt. It is hella tough.

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The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.

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The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

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Perhaps the crescent moon smiles in doubt at being told that it is a fragment awaiting perfection.

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A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

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The moon in her chariot of pearl

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The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow.

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