The spacious firmament on high,
With all the blue ethereal sky,
And spangled heavens, a shining frame,
Their great Original proclaim.
Forever singing, as they shine,
The hand that made us is divine.
Joseph Addison
Quotes , Source: Ode--The Spacious Firmament on High
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We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well
that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place,
until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any
private interpretation.
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Peter (ch. I, v. 19-20)
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Canst thou bind, the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the
bands of Orion?
Bible
Quotes , Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 31)
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Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou
guide Arcturus with his sons?
Bible
Quotes , Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 32)
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Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the
corner stone thereof;
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy?
Bible
Quotes , Source: Job (ch. XXXVIII, v. 6-7)
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They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought
against Sisera.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Judges (ch. V, v. 20)
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The sad and solemn night
Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires;
The glorious host of light
Walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;
All through her silent watches, gliding slow,
Her constellations come, and climb the heavens, and go.
William Cullen Bryant
Quotes , Source: Hymn to the North Star
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The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder
augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly
contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in
such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary
occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort
of infinity.
Edmund Burke
Quotes , Source: On the Sublime and the Beautiful--Magnificence
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This hairy meteor did announce
The fall of sceptres and of crowns.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. I, canto I, 247)
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Cry out upon the stars for doing
Ill offices, to cross their wooing.
Samuel Butler (1)
Quotes , Source: Hudibras (pt. III, canto I, l. 17)
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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur
plagas.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: De Divinatione (II, 13)
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