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    I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,
    forgone all custom of exercises; and indeed, it goes so heavily
    with my disposition that this goodly frame the earth seems to me
    a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look
    you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof
    fretted with golden fire--why, it appeareth nothing to me but a
    foul and pestilent congregation of vapors.

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He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It
will be fair weather: for the read more

He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It
will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky
is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of
the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

by Bible Found in: Sky Quotes, Time Quotes,
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,
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And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,
Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die,
Lift not your hands to it for help--for it
As impotently moves as you or I.

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Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit
strange victims.

Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit
strange victims.

by Thomas Carlyle Found in: Sky Quotes,
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Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never
the same for two months together; almost human in its passions,
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Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never
the same for two months together; almost human in its passions,
almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its
infinity.

by Bayard Ruskin Found in: Sky Quotes,
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And they were canopied by the blue sky,
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,
That God alone read more

And they were canopied by the blue sky,
So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,
That God alone was to be seen in Heaven.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Sky Quotes,
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The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little,--
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The mountain at a given distance
In amber lies;
Approached, the amber flits a little,--
And that's the skies!

by Emily Dickinson Found in: Sky Quotes,
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"Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"
As some one somewhere sings about the sky.

"Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"
As some one somewhere sings about the sky.

by George Gordon Noel Byron Found in: Sky Quotes,
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A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only read more

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

by Unknown Author Found in: Sky Quotes,
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Bolt from the blue.

Bolt from the blue.

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