While you are upon the earth, enjoy the good things that are here.
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth, the Cities rise again.
You are lost, if you forget that the fruits of the earth belong equally to us all, and the earth itself to nobody![Vous êtes perdus si vous oubliez: que les fruits sont à tous, et que la terre n’est à personne!]
There was nothing on earth so good that it had not something nasty about its first origin.[На земле нет ничего хорошего, что в своём первоисточнике не имело бы гадости.]
Once there was The People – Terror gave it birth; Once there was The People and it made a Hell of Earth. Earth arose and crushed it. Listen, O ye slain! Once there was The People – it shall never be again!
On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.[На нашей земле мы истинно можем любить лишь с мучением и только через мучение!]
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, till Earth and Sky stand presently at God’s great Judgment Seat.
O earth, what changes hast thou seen!
Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
It’s just natural, it’s not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it’s The End of The Earth. It’s only a rock group that split up, it’s nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.
It strikes me that all our knowledge about the structure of our earth is very much like what an old hen would know of a hundred acre field, in a corner of which she is scratching.
God grant that not only the Love of Liberty but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man may pervade all the Nations of the Earth so that a Philosopher may set his Foot any where on its Surface and say, this is my Country.
