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The stars hide away their shining form around the lovely moon when in all her fullness she shines (over all) the earth.
Sappho650–550 BCFr. 34 Voigt (tr. David A. Campbell, 1982)
Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.
Albert Schweitzer1875–1965Kulturphilosophie (1923)
- Animals
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Troilus and Cressida
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
But look, the morn in russet mantle clad,
Walks o’er the dew of yon high eastward hill.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene I, spoken by HoratioIn context
In nature’s infinite book of secrecy
A little I can read.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Antony and Cleopatra (c. 1606), Act I, Scene II, spoken by SoothsayerIn context
- Knowledge
Diseased nature oftentimes breaks forth
In strange eruptions
William Shakespeare1564–1616Henry IV, Part 1 (c. 1597), Act III, Scene I, spoken by HotspurIn context
O, wind,
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822Ode to the West Wind (1820)In context
- Hope
Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert,
That from heaven, or near it,
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822To a Skylark (1820)In context