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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 mov'd...
• 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....
• On the night of the tenth of May[1940], at the outset of this mighty battle
  I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs....
• Because half-a-dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink
  whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field...
• 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...
• Chaos of thought and passion, all confused; Still by himself abused or disabused
  Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all...