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The stars shall be rent into threds of light,
And scatter'd like the beards of comets.

— Jeremy Taylor

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Charity is the great channel through which God passes all his mercy upon mankind.

Holy Dying (1651)

Whoever persecutes a disagreeing person, arms all the world against himself, and all pious people of his own persuasion.

Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)

Faith, hope, and charity are the best weapons in the world to fight against intemperance.

Holy Living (1650)

No man speaks more unreasonably, then he that denies to men the use of their Reason in choice of their Religion.

Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)

Nothing is to be esteemed evil which God and nature have fixed with eternal sanction.

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Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring — not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive.

Carl Sagan Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994)

The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance.

Ralph Waldo Emerson Nature (1836)

Her blue eyes sought the west afar,
For lovers love the western star.

Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)

Einstein's space is no closer to reality than Van Gogh's sky.

Arthur Koestler The Act of Creation (1964)

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