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    The number is certainly the cause. The apparent disorder
    augments the grandeur, for the appearance of care is highly
    contrary to our ideas of magnificence. Besides, the stars lie in
    such apparent confusion, as makes it impossible on ordinary
    occasion to reckon them. This gives them the advantage of a sort
    of infinity.

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Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far
Was pinned with a single star.

Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far
Was pinned with a single star.

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A grisly meteor on his face.

A grisly meteor on his face.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Stars Quotes,
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Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.

Or soar aloft to be the spangled skies
And gaze upon her with a thousand eyes.

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge Found in: Stars Quotes,
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No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes read more

No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.
[Lat., Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur
plagas.]

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Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the
corner stone thereof;
When the morning stars sang read more

Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened? or who laid the
corner stone thereof;
When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God
shouted for joy?

by Bible Found in: Stars Quotes,
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The stars,
Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields
Of heaven.

The stars,
Which stand as thick as dewdrops on the fields
Of heaven.

by Philip James Bailey Found in: Stars Quotes,
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While twilight's curtain gathering far,
Is pinned with a single diamond star.

While twilight's curtain gathering far,
Is pinned with a single diamond star.

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Cry out upon the stars for doing
Ill offices, to cross their wooing.

Cry out upon the stars for doing
Ill offices, to cross their wooing.

by Samuel Butler Found in: Stars Quotes,
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And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky.

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