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The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit.
James Joyce1882–1941Ulysses (1922), Part III, Episode 17 (2 of 3)In context
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers
H. G. Wells1866–1946The War of the Worlds (1898), Book Two: The Earth under the Martians, Chapter VIIIIn context
- Life & Death
I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.
L. M. Montgomery1874–1942Anne of Green Gables (1908), Chapter XVIIn context
- Happiness
Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.
Kenneth Grahame1859–1932The Wind in the Willows (1908), Chapter IIn context
The voice of the sea is seductive; never ceasing, whispering, clamoring, murmuring, inviting the soul to wander for a spell in abysses of solitude; to lose itself in mazes of inward contemplation.
Kate Chopin1850–1904The Awakening (1899), Chapter VIIn context
Love all God’s creation, the whole and every grain of sand in it. Love every leaf, every ray of God’s light. Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky1821–1881The Brothers Karamazov (1880), Book VI: The Russian Monk, Chapter IIIIn context
- God
- Love
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! blow!
You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout
Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!
You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,
Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts,
Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder,
Strike flat the thick rotundity o’ the world!
Crack nature’s moulds, all germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act III, Scene II, spoken by LearIn context
- Anger
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses, and with eglantine.
William Shakespeare1564–1616A Midsummer Night’s Dream (c. 1595), Act II, Scene I, spoken by OberonIn context
Be not afeard. The isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight, and hurt not.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act III, Scene II, spoken by CalibanIn context
- Music
Where the bee sucks, there suck I:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Tempest (c. 1611), Act V, Scene I, spoken by ArielIn context
- Happiness
Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene I, spoken by Duke SeniorIn context
- Wisdom
Under the greenwood tree,
Who loves to lie with me
And turn his merry note
Unto the sweet bird’s throat,
Come hither, come hither, come hither!
Here shall he see
No enemy
But winter and rough weather.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene V, spoken by AmiensIn context
- Music
Blow, blow, thou winter wind,
Thou art not so unkind
As man’s ingratitude.
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,
Although thy breath be rude.
William Shakespeare1564–1616As You Like It (c. 1599), Act II, Scene VII, spoken by AmiensIn context
- Character
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), Where I Lived, and What I Lived ForIn context
- Life & Death
This preservation of favourable variations and the rejection of injurious variations, I call Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin1809–1882On the Origin of Species (1859), Chapter IV (1 of 2)In context
- Science