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• I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was brigh
  And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled....
• SMILEY :^D "Great! I like it!
• I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample on my days,-- My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
  -- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) -- They are all gone...
• Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
  Rather, the round globe is a vast head, a brain, instinct with intelligence! -- N. Hawthorne...
• Most folks they like the daytime, 'cause they like to see the shining sun.
  They're up in the morning, off and a-running till they're too tired for having fun....
• For a long time then, I reflected on this confusion in the astronomical traditions concerning the derivation of the motions of the universe's spheres.
  I began to be annoyed that the movements of the world machine, created for our sake by the best and most systematic Artisan of all, were not understood with greater certainty by the philosophers, who otherwise examined so precisely the most insignificant trifles of this world....
• She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skie
  And all that 's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eye...
• it is now some years since I detected how many were the false beliefs that I ha d believed to be true since my earliest youth.
  And since that time, I have bee n convinced that I must once and for all seriously try to rid myself of all the opiniouns which I had formerly accepted, and begin to build anew, if I wanted t o establish any firm and permanent structure for my beliefs....
• Out of the shadow of night, the world rolls into light. It is daybreak everywhere. -- Longfellow