Top Earthly Quotes
Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Just as in earthly life lovers long for the moment when they are able to breathe forth their love for each other, to let their souls blend in a soft whisper, so the mystic longs for the moment when in prayer he can, as it were, creep into God.
Soren Kierkegaard
I love Dickens because it makes me chuckle to myself so. He has taken me to another world and out of so many earthly miseries.
Jane Birkin
I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
Plato
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.
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I have departed from this planet and I have left behind my poor earthly ones with their occupations which are as many as they are useless; at last I am living in the scintillating splendor of the stars, each of which used to seem to me as large as millions of suns.
Jules Massenet 
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To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.
Isaac Newton
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Today we no longer regard the universe as the cause of our own undeserved troubles but perhaps, on the contrary, as the last refuge from the mismanagement of our earthly affairs.
Rudolf Arnheim
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The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.
Ernst Haeckel
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
Lafcadio Hearn
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The ultimate binding element in the medieval order was subordination to the divine will and its earthly representatives, notably the pope.
Irving Babbitt
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Home is the most popular, and will be the most enduring of all earthly establishments.
Channing Pollock
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But the word of the Gospel is not as the word of an earthly prince.
John Jewel
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