Definition of earth

"earth" in the noun sense

1. Earth, earth, world, globe

the 3rd planet from the sun the planet we live on

"the Earth moves around the sun"

"he sailed around the world"

2. earth, ground

the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface

"they dug into the earth outside the church"

3. land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma

the solid part of the earth's surface

"the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"

"the earth shook for several minutes"

"he dropped the logs on the ground"

4. Earth, earth

the abode of mortals (as contrasted with Heaven or Hell

"it was hell on earth"

5. earth

once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)

6. worldly concern, earthly concern, world, earth

the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife

"they consider the church to be independent of the world"

7. ground, earth

a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage)

"earth" in the verb sense

1. earth

hide in the earth like a hunted animal

2. earth

connect to the earth

"earth the circuit"

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Quotations for earth

They mingle heaven and earth.

Child of the earth's old age. [ Miss Langdon ]

All our pomp the earth covers. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

May earth lie light upon thee.

Earth's highest station ends in -
Here he lies. [ Young ]

Earth, sea, man, are all in each. [ Dante Gabriel Rossetti ]

Earth proudly wears the Parthenon
As the best gem upon her zone. [ Emerson ]

Love divine, all love excelling,
Joy of heaven to earth come down. [ Toplady ]

The rugged, all-nourishing earth. [ Sophocles ]

The poetry of earth is never dead. [ Keats ]

A gentle wind of western birth,
From some far summer sea,
Wakes daisies in the wintry earth. [ George MacDonald ]

The flowers are but earth vivified. [ Lamartine ]

Much in earth but little in heaven. [ Proverb ]

Underneath large blue-bells tented
Where the daisies are rose-scented,
And the rose herself has got
Perfume which on earth is not. [ Keats ]

Noble souls, through dust and heat.
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger;
And conscious still of the divine
Within them, lie on earth supine
No longer. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen.
Fallen from his high estate.
And welt'ring in his blood;
Deserted at his utmost need.
But those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ Dryden ]

I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play.
And wild and sweet, The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good-will to men! [ Longfellow ]

A youth to whom was given
So much of earth, so much of heaven. [ Wordsworth ]

Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed,
On the bare earth exposed be lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes. [ John Dryden ]

Earth originally, and earth finally. [ Italian Proverb ]

Spring is the -painter of the earth. [ Alcuin ]

The first men that our Saviour dear
Did choose to wait upon Him here,
Blest fishers were; and fish the last
Food was, that He on earth did taste:
I therefore strive to follow those,
Whom He to follow Him hath chose. [ Izaak Walton ]

The world will turn when we are earth
As though we had not come nor gone;
There was no lack before our birth.
When we are gone there will be none. [ Omar Khayyam ]

Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God. [ Leigh ]

The poetry of earth is ceasing never. [ Keats ]

Six feet of earth make all men equal. [ Proverb ]

For faith, and peace, and mighty love
That from the Godhead flow,
Show'd them the life of heaven above
Springs from the earth below. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three. [ R. Montgomery ]

Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earth! [ Beaumont and Fletcher ]

Lay her in the earth;
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh
May violets spring! [ William Shakespeare ]

Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood. [ Shelley ]

And to his eye
There was but one beloved face on earth
And that was shining on him. [ Byron ]

There are enough unhappy on this earth. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky.
The dew shall weep thy fall tonight;
For thou must die. [ Herbert ]

Earth's liquid jewelry, wrought of air. [ Bailey ]

This is the last of earth! I am content. [ John Quincy Adams ]

Man's work is to labor, and leaven -
As best he may - earth here with heaven. [ Robert Browning ]

Happy that I can
Be crossed and thwarted as a man,
Not left in God's contempt apart,
With ghastly smooth life, dead at heart,
Tame in earth's paddock, as her prize. [ Browning ]

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has.
And these are of them. [ William Shakespeare ]

To rock and river, plain and wood,
I cry, Ye are my kin. While I, O Earth!
Am but an atom of thee, and a breath,
Passing unseen and unrecorded, like
The tiny throb here in my temple's pulse. [ Philip J. Bailey ]

Had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell.
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Ye pretty daughters of the earth and sun. [ Sir Walter Raleigh ]

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. [ Lowell ]

A sturdy oak, which nature forms
To brave a hundred winter's storms.
While round its head the whirlwinds blow.
Remains with root infix'd below:
When fell'd to earth, a ship it sails
Through dashing waves and driving gales
And now at sea, again defies
The threatening clouds and howling skies. [ Hoole ]

O happy earth.
Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! [ Spenser ]

Behold the Sea,
The opaline, the plentiful and strong,
Yet beautiful as is the rose in June,
Fresh as the trickling rainbow of July;
Sea full of food, the nourisher of kinds,
Purger of earth, and medicine of men;
Creating a sweet climate by my breath,
Washing out harms and griefs from memory,
And, in my mathematic ebb and flow,
Giving a hint of that which changes not. [ Emerson ]

Oh, Love! no habitant of earth thou art -
An unseen seraph, we believe in thee. [ Byron ]

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error, wounded, writhes with pain,
And dies among his worshippers. [ W. C. Bryant ]

Rest thy unrest in England's lawful earth. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

And there at Venice gave
His body to that pleasant country's earth,
And his pure soul unto his captain Christ,
Under whose colours he had fought so long. [ William Shakespeare ]

The life of a wit is a warfare upon earth. [ Pope ]

The most magnificent and costly dome.
Is but an upper chamber to a tomb;
No spot on earth but has supplied a grave,
And human skulls the spacious ocean pave. [ Young ]

Tomorrow; never yet was born
In earth's dull atmosphere a thing so fair
Never tripped, with footsteps light as air,
So glad a vision over the hills of morn. [ Julia C. R. Dorr ]

No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us,
All earth forgot, and all heaven around us. [ Moore ]

Earth with her thousand voices praises God. [ Coleridge ]

The day begins to break, and night is fled.
Whose pitchy mantle over-veil'd the earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Earth, that's Nature's mother, is her tomb. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

Traverse the desert, and then ye can tell
What treasures exist in the cold deep well,
Sink in despair on the red parch'd earth,
And then ye may reckon what water is worth. [ Miss Eliza Cook ]

Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. [ Keats ]

These stars of earth, these golden flowers. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Heaven is not reached at a single bound,
But we build the ladder by which we rise
From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies,
And we mount to its summit, round by round. [ J. G. Holland, Pseudonym: Timothy Titcomb ]

Some sins do bear their privilege on earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise.
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares,
The poets, who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight by heavenly lays. [ Wordsworth ]

A sea before
The Throne is spread; - its pure still glass
Pictures all earth-scenes as they pass.
We, on its shore,
Share, in the bosom of our rest,
God's knowledge, and are blest. [ Cardinal Newman ]

Beauty too rich for use; for earth too dear. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

The dew-bead gem, of earth and sky begotten. [ George Eliot ]

See daily showers rejoice the thirsty earth.
And bless the flowery buds succeeding birth. [ Prior ]

A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee. [ William Shakespeare ]

The home of the homeless all over the earth. [ Street ]

The glorious sun
Stays in his course and plays the alchemist,
Turning with splendor of his precious eye
The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold. [ William Shakespeare ]

The only amaranthine flower on earth
Is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. [ William Cowper ]

An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity! [ William Shakespeare ]

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. Behold
The arch enchanter's wand! itself a nothing!
But taking sorcery from the master hand.
To paralyze the Caesars, and to strike
The loud earth breathless! [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

In this broad earth of ours,
Amid the measureless grossness and the slag,
Enclosed and safe within its central heart,
Nestles the seed perfection. [ Walt Whitman ]

The ascent from earth to heaven is not easy. [ Seneca ]

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal. [ Moore ]

Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime,
Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl. [ Milton ]

The tender flower that lifts its head, elate,
Helpless must fall before the blasts of fate,
Sunk on the earth, defaced its lovely form,
Unless your shelter ward th' impending storm. [ Burns ]

The earth now supports many bad and weak men. [ Juv ]

Where is the dust that has not been alive?
The spade, the plough, disturb our ancestors;
From human mould we reap our daily bread. [ Young ]

The sea! the sea!- the open sea!
The blue, the fresh, the ever free!
Without a mark, without a bound,
It runneth the earth's wide regions round;
It plays with the clouds; it mocks the skies;
Or like a cradled creature lies. [ Barry Cornwall ]

Perfect light
Would dazzle, not illuminate, the sight;
From earth it is enough to glimpse at heaven. [ Lord Houghton ]

Mother is one of the sweetest names on earth. [ A. Ritchie ]

For thee, O now a silent soul, my brother,
Take at my hands this garland and farewell,
Thin is the leaf, and chill the wintry smell,
And chill the solemn earth, a fatal mother. [ Swinburne ]

The miracles of earth are the laws of heaven. [ Jean Paul Richter ]

Air, earth, and seas, obey'd the Almighty nod,
And with a general fear confess'd the God. [ Dryden ]

Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
And are the playthings of the casual wind. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

'Tis beautiful, when first the dewy light
Breaks on the earth! while yet the scented air
Is breathing the cool freshness of the night
And the bright clouds a tint of crimson wear. [ Elizabeth M. Chandler ]

Fairest of all that earth beholds, the hues
That live among the clouds, and flush the air,
Lingering and deepening at the hour of dews. [ Bryant ]

O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth! [ Dana ]

Men at most differ as heaven and earth,
But women, worst and best, as heaven and hell. [ Alfred Tennyson ]

The sweetest noise on earth, a woman's tongue;
A string which hath no discord. [ Barry Cornwall ]

The soul shut up in her dark room,
Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing;
But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind,
Works all her folly up, and casts it outward
To the world's open view. [ John Dryden ]

Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

No trumpet-blast profaned
The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born;
No bloody streamlet stained
Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn. [ Bryant ]

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. [ Browning ]

The charm of eloquence - the skill
To wake each secret string,
And from the bosom's chords at will
Life's mournful music bring;
The overmastering strength of mind, which sways
The haughty and the free,
Whose might earth's mightiest ones obey
This charm was given to thee. [ Mrs. Embury ]

Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat,
Sighing through all her work, gave sign of woe
That all was lost. [ Milton ]

And genius hath electric power,
Which earth can never tame;
Bright suns may scorch, and dark clouds lower -
Its flash is still the same. [ Lydia M. Child ]

Heaven and earth fight in vain against a dunce! [ Schiller ]

Immortal art! Where'er the rounded sky
Bends over the cradle where thy children lie,
Their home is earth, their herald every tongue. [ Holmes ]

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, - roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin - his control
Stops with the shore. [ Byron ]

Other sins only speak, murder shrieks out.
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. [ Webster ]

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden,
One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
When he called the flowers, so blue and golden,
Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine. [ Longfellow ]

Jove weighs affairs of earth in dubious scales.
And the good suffers while the bad prevails. [ Homer ]

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love,
Make our earth an Eden like the heaven above. [ F. S. Osgood ]

Welcome as kindly showers to long-parched earth. [ Dryden ]

He's madder than mad who sells heaven for earth. [ Proverb ]

Mighty Nature bounds as from her birth,
The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth;
Flowers in the valley, splendor in the beam,
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream. [ Byron ]

The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb. [ William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet ]

What are these,
So withered, and so wild in their attire;
That look not like the inhabitants of the earth,
And yet are on it. [ Shakespeare ]

Long while I sought to what I might compare
Those powerful eyes, which light my dark spirit;
Yet found I nought on earth, to which I dare
Resemble the image of their goodly light.
Not to the sun, for they do shine by night;
Nor to the moon, for they are changed never;
Nor to the stars, for they have purer sight;
Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever;
Nor to the lightning, for they still persevere;
Nor to the diamond, for they are more tender;
Nor unto crystal, for nought may they sever;
Nor unto glass, such baseness might offend her;
Then to the Maker's self the likest be;
Whose light doth lighten all that here we see. [ Spenser ]

There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes.
Might furnish crowns for all the Queens of earth. [ Bailey ]

Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man. [ Young ]

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine.
Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower. [ Pope ]

Who upon earth could live were all judged justly? [ Byron ]

And the dream that our mind had sketched in haste
Shall others continue, but never complete.
For none upon earth can achieve his scheme;
The best as the worst are futile here:
We wake at the self-same point of the dream -
All is here begun, and finished elsewhere. [ Victor Hugo ]

There have been fewer friends on earth than kings. [ Cowley ]

There is a strength
Deep-bedded in our hearts, of which we reck
But little, till the shafts of heaven have pierced
Its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent
Before her gems are found? [ Mrs. Hemans ]

The morn is up again, the dewy morn,
With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom,
Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn,
And living as if earth contain'd no tomb, -
And glowing into day. [ Byron ]

The loveliest flowers the closest cling to earth,
And they first feel the sun: so violets blue;
So the soft star-like primrose - drenched in dew -
The happiest of spring's happy, fragrant birth. [ Keble ]

Oh, break, my heart! poor bankrupt, break at once!
To prison, eyes, never look on liberty!
Vile earth, to earth resign; end motion here;
And thou and Romeo press one heavy bier! [ William Shakespeare ]

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?
By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,
Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell.
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;
Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree.
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee! [ Cowper ]

A son of the earth; a man of obscure or low origin. [ Pers ]

Foul deeds will rise,
Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. [ William Shakespeare ]

The fountain of my heart dried up within me, -
With nought that loved me, and with nought to love,
I stood upon the desert earth alone.
And in that deep and utter agony,
Though then, then even most unfit to die
I fell upon my knees and prayed for death. [ Maturin ]

Birds, the free tenants of earth, air, and ocean,
Their forms all symmetry, their motion grace,
In plumage delicate and beautiful,
Thick without burthen, close as fish's scales.
Or loose as full blown poppies on the gale;
With wings that seem as they'd a soul within them.
They bear their owners with such sweet enchantment. [ James Montgomery ]

The way from the earth to the stars is no soft one. [ Seneca ]

First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea. [ Moore ]

Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven. [ Robert Browning ]

Error's monstrous shapes from earth are driven
They fade, they fly - but truth survives the flight. [ Bryant ]

What's come to perfection perishes,
Things learned on earth we shall practise in heaven;
Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes. [ Robert Browning ]

The earth produces all things, and receives all again. [ Proverb ]

No worth, known or unknown, can die even on this earth. [ Carlyle ]

Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. [ Bible ]

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. [ William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream ]

What region of the earth is not full of our calamities? [ Virgil ]

Whose roots earth's centre touch, whose heads the skies. [ Walter Harte ]

Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free,
First flower of the earth, and first gem of the sea. [ Moore ]

Twine round thee threads of steel, like thread on thread,
That grow to fetters, or bind down thy arms
With chains concealed in chaplets. Oh, not yet
Mayst thou embrace thy corselet, nor lay by
Thy sword; not yet, O Freedom, close thy lids
In slumber; for thine enemy never sleeps.
And thou must watch and combat till the day
Of the new earth and heaven. [ Bryant ]

Through love the earth becomes free; through deeds, great. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

The earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the past. [ Coleridge ]

And never shall the sons of Columbia be slaves.
While the earth bears a plant, or the sea rolls its waves. [ Robert Treat Paine ]

Hark! the herald angels sing, Glory to the new-born King:
Peace on earth, and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled. [ Charles Wesley ]

Words are daughters of earth, but ideas are sons of heaven. [ Dr. Samuel Johnson ]

To be rich be diligent; move on
Like heavens great movers that enrich the earth;
Whose moment's sloth would show the world undone;
And make the spring straight bury all her birth.
Rich are the diligent who can command Time - nature's stock. [ Davenant ]

The things of the earth are not worth our attachment to them. [ Nicole ]

But one on earth is better than the wife; that is the mother. [ Leopold Schefer ]

An empty human heart is an abyss earth's depths cannot match. [ Anne C. Lynch ]

Heaven - it is God's throne. The earth - it is His footstool. [ Bible ]

Once again I do receive thee honest.
Who by repentance is not satisfied is nor of heaven nor earth. [ William Shakespeare ]

Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter,
To what shall their rarity be likened?
What price shall count their worth?
Perfect and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches,
No lovely thing on earth can picture all their beauty. [ Tupper ]

Fair or foul the lot apportioned life on earth, we bear alike. [ Robert Browning ]

This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory. [ William Shakespeare ]

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. [ Colossians, chap. iii ]

Nothing is more common on earth than to deceive and be deceived. [ Seume ]

On the earth, the Infinite has sowed His name in tender flowers. [ Richter ]

Once every atom of this ground lived, breathed, and felt like me! [ James Montgomery ]

The heavens and the earth are but the time-vesture of the Eternal. [ Carlyle ]

All sorts are here that all the earth yields, variety without end. [ Milton ]

Gentleness and kindness will make our homes a paradise upon earth. [ Bartol ]

Every noble crown is, and on earth will ever be, a crown of thorns. [ Carlyle ]

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home. [ J. H. Vincent ]

There is no pride on earth like the pride of intellect and science. [ Roswell D. Hitchcock ]

Love is precisely to the moral nature what the sun is to the earth. [ Balzac ]

The afflictions of earth exalt the spirit and lift the soul to God. [ Tiedge ]

What region of the earth is not full of the story of our calamities? [ Virgil ]

Falstaff sweats to death, and lards the lean earth as he walks along. [ William Shakespeare ]

Death and love are the two wings which bear man from earth to heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. [ Hood ]

Heaven and earth, advantages and obstacles, conspire to educate genius. [ Fuseli ]

The silent snow possessed the earth, and calmly fell our Christmas-eve. [ Tennyson ]

Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven and hell a fable. [ Colton ]

O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls! [ Bailey ]

When love came first to earth, the spring spread rose-beds to receive him. [ Campbell ]

There is no beauty on earth which exceeds the natural loveliness of woman. [ J. Petit-Senn ]

Take away desire from the heart, and you take away the air from the earth. [ Bulwer Lytton ]

The earth hath bubbles, as the water has, and these are of them. (Trifles) [ William Shakespeare ]

Women love always: when earth slips from them, they take refuge in heaven.

The earth opens impartially her bosom to receive the beggar and the prince. [ Horace ]

The impartial earth opens alike for the child of the pauper and of the king. [ Horace ]

It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth. [ William Mountford ]

A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. [ Whipple ]

Who knows that 'tis not life which we call death, and death our life on earth? [ Euripides ]

The soul on earth is an immortal guest, compelled to starve at an unreal feast. [ Hannah More ]

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows. [ Knowles ]

Every genuine work of art has as much reason for being as the earth and the sun. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

A lamp is lit in woman's eye, that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by. [ N. P. Willis ]

He shall come down like rain upon the mown grass: as showers that water the earth. [ Bible ]

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth. [ Hare ]

A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading fertility. [ Epicurus ]

Earth hath nothing more tender than a woman's heart when it is the abode of piety. [ Luther ]

Beware what earth calls happiness; beware all joys but joys that never can expire. [ Young ]

Of earth's goods, the best is a good wife; a bad, the bitterest curse of human life. [ Simonides ]

Respect your wife. Heap earth around that flower, but never drop any in the chalice. [ A. de Musset ]

Every power of both heaven and earth is friendly to a noble and courageous activity. [ J. Burroughs ]

To have no pain, and not be bored, is the utmost happiness possible to man on earth. [ Arthur Schopenhauer ]

A sweet new blossom of humanity, fresh fallen from God's own home to flower on earth. [ Gerald Massey ]

It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven. [ N. Caussin ]

Nature, as It grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy. [ William Shakespeare ]

The only love which on this teeming earth asks no return for passion's wayward birth. [ Mrs. Norton ]

The human brain is the highest bloom of the whole organic metamorphosis of the earth. [ Schelling ]

There is work on God's wide earth for all men that he has made with hands and hearts. [ Carlyle ]

His home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest. [ Montgomery ]

Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind. [ Martin Luther ]

A wasting disease and an unheard-of battalion of fevers have swooped down on the earth. [ Horace ]

This little member can behold the earth, and in a moment view things as high as heaven. [ Charnock ]

My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. [ Cowper ]

For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow. [ Bible ]

Even the best must own patience and resignation are the pillars of human peace on earth. [ Young ]

Nought so vile that on the earth doth live, but to the earth some special good doth give. [ William Shakespeare ]

Is beauty vain because it will fade? Then are earth's green robe and heaven's light vain. [ Pierpont ]

There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. [ William Shakespeare,Hamlet ]

The rolling billows beat the rugged shore, as they the earth would shoulder from her seat. [ Spenser ]

Of all the joys that brighten suffering earth, what joy is welcomed like a new-born child? [ Mrs. Norton ]

If happiness could be prolonged from love into marriage, we should have paradise on earth. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

When I am dead, may earth be mingled with fire! Ay, said Nero, and while I am living, too. [ From a Greek Tragedian ]

We should not pass from the earth without leaving traces to carry our memory to posterity. [ Napoleon I ]

God is the poet; men are but the actors. The great dramas of earth were written in heaven. [ Balzac ]

Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust, in sure and certain hope of the Resurrection. [ Burial Service ]

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth unseen, both when we sleep and when we wake. [ Milton ]

Ye may trace my step over the wakening earth by the winds which tell of the violet's birth. [ Mrs. Hemans ]

The earth with its scarred face is the symbol of the past; the air and heaven, of futurity. [ Coleridge ]

Government of the people, by the people and for the people, shall not perish from the earth. [ Abraham Lincoln ]

There will always remain something to be said of woman, as long as there is one on the earth. [ Boufflers ]

Night comes, that another morning, with all its glory and freshness, may dawn upon the earth. [ Fanny Fern ]

'Tis sweet to stammer one letter of the Eternal's language; on earth it is called forgiveness. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Earth is here (in Australia) so kind, just tickle her with a hoe and she laughs with a harvest. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

He who loves, as well as he who dies, needs no other wing by which to soar from earth to heaven. [ Michael Angelo ]

A soul, - a spark of the never-dying flame that separates man from all the other beings of earth. [ James Fenimore Cooper ]

A freeman contending for liberty on his own ground is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth. [ George Washington ]

If angels ever condescend to walk on this earth of ours, it is when clad in the form of good mothers. [ W. T. Burke ]

The belfries of all Christendom now roll along the unbroken song of peace on earth, good will to men! [ Longfellow ]

The sublimest canticle to be heard on earth is the stammering of the human soul on the lips of infancy. [ Victor Hugo ]

It is the fate of the great ones of the earth to begin to be appreciated by us only after they are gone. [ Old Ger. saying ]

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer. [ Cervantes ]

Eyes will not see when the heart wishes them to be blind; desire conceals truth as darkness does the earth. [ Seneca ]

The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. [ Dante ]

Night bringeth sleep, and spreadeth itself over the crowds of weary men, and giveth rest to the whole earth. [ Apollonius Rhodius ]

To what gods is sacrificed that rarest and sweetest thing upon earth, friendship? To vanity and to interest. [ Malesherbes ]

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth. [ Margaret Fuller ]

Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth! [ Izaak Walton ]

Remember that every drop of rain that falls bears into the bosom of the earth a quality of beautiful fertility. [ G. H. Lewes ]

Lift thyself up, look around, and see something higher and brighter than earth, earthworms, and earthly darkness. [ Richter ]

Equality is the share of every one at their advent upon earth, and equality is also theirs when placed beneath it. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]

Speak no harsh words of earth; she is our mother, and few of us her sons who have not added a wrinkle to her brow. [ Alexander Smith ]

The great men of the earth are but the markingstones on the road of humanity; they are the priests of its religion. [ Mazzini ]

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious, as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits. [ Vauvenargues ]

Religion is an everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night. [ Carlyle ]

Beauty and sadness always go together. Nature thought Beauty too rich to go forth upon the earth without a meet alloy. [ George MacDonald ]

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society, as the blazing meteor when it descends to the earth is only a stone. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. [ Hosea Ballou ]

When our friends die, in proportion as we loved them, we die with them - we go with them. We are not wholly of the earth. [ William Ellery Channing ]

A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities. [ F. W. Robertson ]

The Omnipotent has sown His name on the heavens in glittering stars; but upon earth He planteth His name by tender flowers. [ Richter ]

When I look to my guiltiness. I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth. [ Rutherford ]

I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press. [ Joanna Baillie ]

Want of prudence is too frequently the want of virtue; nor is there on earth a more powerful advocate for vice than poverty. [ Goldsmith ]

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of Heaven. [ Johnson ]

The earth doth not cover our beloved, but heaven hath received him; let us tarry for awhile, and we shall be in his company. [ St. Basil ]

Nothing can we call our own but death, and that small model of the barren earth which serves as paste and cover to our bones. [ William Shakespeare ]

If I make the seven oceans ink, if I make the trees my pen, if I make the earth my paper, the glory of God cannot be written. [ Kabir ]

The drop hollows the stone, the ring is worn by use, and the crooked ploughshare is frayed away by the pressure of the earth. [ Ovid ]

Great warmth at first is the certain ruin of every great achievement. Doth not water, although ever so cool, moisten the earth? [ Hitopadesa ]

Oh, how a small portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living! [ Philip, King of Macedon ]

Nothing on earth is without significance, but the first and most essential in every matter is the place where and the hour when. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth. [ Dante ]

The bad fortune of the good, turns their faces up to heaven; and the good fortune of the bad, bows their heads down to the earth. [ Sadi ]

It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth. [ Victor Hugo ]

An aged Christian with the snow of time on his head may remind us that those points of earth are whitest that are nearest heaven. [ E. H. Cbapin ]

Thus came the lovely spring, with a rush of blossoms and music, flooding the earth with flowers and the air with melodies vernal. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Man should be ever better than he seems; and shape his acts, and discipline his mind, to walk adorning earth, with hope of heaven. [ Sir Aubrey de Vere ]

To the Christian, these shades are the golden haze which heaven's light makes, when it meets the earth, and mingles with its shadows. [ H. W. Beecher ]

A noble life, crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empires of the earth. [ James A. Garfield ]

What has become of those personages who made so much noise in the world? Time has made one step, and the face of the earth is renewed. [ Chateaubriand ]

Now black and deep the night begins to fall, a shade immense; sunk in the quenching gloom, magnificent and vast, are heaven and earth. [ Thomson ]

In goodness, rich men should transcend the poor, as clouds the earth; raised by the comfort of the sun to water dry and barren grounds. [ Tourneur ]

However bright the comedy before, the last act is always stained with blood. The earth is laid upon our head, and there it lies forever. [ Pascal ]

If we are rich with the riches which we neither give nor enjoy, we are rich with the riches which are buried in the caverns of the earth. [ Veeshnoo Sarma ]

The body oppressed by excesses bears down the mind, and depresses to the earth any portion of the divine spirit we bad been endowed with. [ Horace ]

When my time on Earth is gone, and my activities here are past, I want that they should bury me upside down, so my critics can kiss my ass. [ Bobby Knight ]

O earth! I will befriend thee more with rain than youthful April shall with all his showers; in summer's drought I'll drop upon thee still. [ William Shakespeare ]

Sea Islanders; but a real human heart, with Divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell. [ Burton ]

The poorest being that crawls on earth, contending to save itself from injustice and oppression, is an object respectable in the eyes of God and man. [ Burke ]

Physicians, of all men, are most happy; whatever good success soever they have the world proclaimeth, and what faults they commit the earth covereth. [ Quarles ]

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting-place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men. [ Tupper ]

I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth. [ Richard Baxter ]

There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be. [ Bishop Hall ]

I don't believe that the way to make a man love heaven is to disgust him with earth. Let us love all that is bright and beautiful and good in this world. [ Beecher ]

A beautiful and chaste woman is the perfect workmanship of God, and the true glory of angels, the rare miracle of earth, and the sole wonder of the world. [ Hermes ]

All these are elements of happiness - love of nature, acquaintance with the wide earth, congenial intercourse with superior minds, and abiding friendships. [ Charles W. Eliot ]

To wither away, be disleaved, be trodden to dust even by the rude feet of Fate, that, friend, is the lot on earth of everything that is beautiful and sweet. [ Heine ]

There is something on earth greater than arbitrary power. The thunder, the lightning, and the earthquake are terrific, but the judgment of the people is more. [ Daniel Webster ]

Measure not thyself by thy morning shadow, but by the extent of thy grave; and reckon thyself above the earth by the line thou must be contented with under it. [ Sir T. Browne ]

Truth is vanishing from the earth, and of fidelity is the day gone by. The dogs still wag the tail and smell the same as ever, but they are no longer faithful. [ Heine ]

The field cannot be well seen from within the field. The astronomer must have his diameter of the earth's orbit as a base to fix the parallax of any other star. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

To smell a fresh turf of earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul. Dust thou art, and unto dust thou shalt return. [ Fuller ]

O Love! when thou findest thy true apostles on earth united in kisses, thou commandest their eyelids to close like veils, that they may not see their happiness! [ A. de Musset ]

It is, in a great measure, by raising up and endowing great minds that God secures the advance of human affairs, and the accomplishment of His own plans on earth. [ Albert Barnes ]

What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance, when all the skill of art is not able to make an oyster! [ Jeremy Taylor ]

All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. [ Plato ]

Many a man lives a burden upon the earth; but a good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond life. [ Milton ]

Superstition is in its death-lair; the last agonies may endure for decades or for centuries; but it carries the iron in its heart, and will not vex the earth any more. [ Carlyle ]

The lofty pine is oftenest agitated by the winds - high towers rush to the earth with a heavier fall - and the lightning most frequently strikes the highest mountains. [ Horace ]

This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom - the very fashion of which passeth away. [ Fenelon ]

Earth has one angel less, and heaven one more since yesterday. Already, kneeling at the throne, she has received her welcome, and is resting on the bosom of her Saviour. [ Hawthorne ]

All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points. [ Mme. Swetchine ]

Fame is not won on downy plumes nor under canopies; the man who consumes his days without obtaining it leaves such mark of himself on earth as smoke in air or foam on water. [ Dante ]

Flowers are the terrestrial stars that bring down heaven to earth, and carry up our thoughts from earth to heaven; the poetry of the Creator, written in beauty and fragrance. [ Chatfield ]

Think of living! Thy life, wert thou the pitifullest of all the sons of earth, is no idle dream, but a solemn reality. It is thy own; it is all thou hast to front eternity with. [ Carlyle ]

Rest and undisturbed content have now no place on earth, nor can the greatest affluence of worldly good procure them, ... they are peculiar to the love and fruition of God alone. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flintstone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. [ Saadi ]

Science is teaching man to know and reverence truth, and to believe that only so far as he knows and loves it can he live worthily on earth, and vindicate the dignity of his spirit. [ Moses Harvey ]

National character varies as it fades under invasion or corruption; but if ever it glows again into a new life, that life must be tempered by the earth and sky of the country itself. [ John Ruskin ]

There is strength deep bedded in our hearts, of which we reck but little till the shafts of heaven have pierced its fragile dwelling. Must not earth be rent before her gems are found? [ Mrs. Hemans ]

Gentle feelings produce profoundly beneficial effects upon stern natures. It is the spring rain which melts the ice-covering of the earth, and causes it to open to the beams of heaven. [ Fredrika Bremer ]

An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford. [ Zimmermann ]

We declare to you that the earth has exhausted its contingent of master spirits. Now for decadence and general closing. We must make up our minds to it. We shall have no more men of genius. [ Victor Hugo ]

If there be one thing on earth which is truly admirable, it is to see God's wisdom blessing an inferiority of natural powers, where they have been honestly, truly, and zealously cultivated. [ Dr. Arnold ]

Poverty breeds wealth; and wealth in its turn breeds poverty. The earth, to form the mould, is taken out of the ditch; and whatever may be the height of the one will be the depth of the other. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Heaven is attracting to itself whatever is congenial to its nature, is enriching itself by the spoils of earth, and collecting within its capacious bosom whatever is pure, permanent and divine. [ Robert Hall ]

Child of earth and earthly sorrows - child of God and immortal hopes - arise from thy sadness, gird up the loins of thy mind, and with unfaltering energy press toward thy rest and reward on high. [ E. L. Magoon ]

Flowers are the bright remembrances of youth; they waft us back, with their bland, odorous breath, the joyous hours that only young life knows, ere we have learnt that this fair earth hides graves. [ Countess of Blessington ]

God gives every bird its food, but He does not throw it into the nest. He does not unearth the good that the earth contains, but He puts it in our way, and gives us the means of getting it ourselves. [ J. G. Holland ]

Rarest of all things on earth is the union in which both, by their contrasts, make harmonious their blending; each supplying the defects of the helpmate, and completing, by fusion, one strong human soul. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Man is of the earth, but his thoughts are with the stars. A pigmy standing on the outward crest of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest. [ Carlyle ]

What a desolate place would be a world without a flower! It would be a face without a smile, a feast without a welcome. Are not flowers the stars of the earth, and are not our stars the flowers of heaven? [ Mrs. Balfour ]

Men are tatooed with their special beliefs like so many South Sea islanders; but a real human heart, with divine love in it, beats with the same glow under all the patterns of all earth's thousand tribes. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it. [ Lowell ]

There is no such thing as Liberty in the universe: there can never be. The stars have it not; the earth has it not; the sea has it not; and we men have the mockery and semblance of it only for our heaviest punishment. [ John Ruskin ]

Providence has clearly ordained that the only path fit and salutary for man on earth is the path of persevering fortitude - the unremitting struggle of deliberate self-preparation and humble but active reliance on divine aid. [ B. L. Magoon ]

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. [ Dickens ]

Earth has scarcely an acre that does not remind us of actions that have long preceded our own, and its clustering tombstones loom up like reefs of the eternal shore, to show us where so many human barks have struck and gone down. [ Chapin ]

Poetry, like truth, is a common flower. God has sown it over the earth like daisies, sprinkled with tears, or glowing in the sun, even as he places the crocus and the March frosts together, and beautifully mingles life and death. [ Ebenezer Elliott ]

The name of a mother! what a long history does it bring with it of smiles and words of mildness, of tears shed by night and of sighings at the morning dawn, of love unrequited, of cares for which there can be no recompense on earth. [ Prof. Park ]

Every man stamps his value on himself. The price we challenge for ourselves is given us. There does not live on earth the man, be his station what it may, that I despise myself compared with him. Man is made great or little by his own will. [ Schiller ]

My first and last secret of Art is to get a thorough intelligence of the fact to be painted, represented, or, in whatever way, set forth - the fact deep as Hades, high as heaven, and written so, as to the visual face of it on this poor earth. [ Carlyle ]

Music is God's best gift to man, the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven. But music, like all our gifts, is given us in the germ. It is for us to unfold and develop it by instruction and cultivation. [ Charles W. Landon ]

Flowers belong to Fairyland: the flowers and the birds and the butterflies are all that the world has kept of its golden age - the only perfectly beautiful things on earth - joyous, innocent, half divine - useless, say they who are wiser than God. [ Ouida ]

I have always a sacred veneration for any one I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher; because the richest minerals are ever found under the most ragged and withered surfaces of the earth. [ Swift ]

We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again. We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the industries and technologies of tomorrow. [ President Donald J. Trump, Presidential Inaugeration Speech, Jan 20, 2017 ]

Nothing on earth is without difficulty. Only the inner impulse, the pleasure it gives and love enable us to surmount obstacles; to make smooth our way, and lift ourselves out of the narrow grooves in which other people sorrowfully distress themselves. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

There are certain events which to each man's life are as comets to the earth, seemingly strange and erratic portents; distinct from the ordinary lights which guide our course and mark our seasons, yet true to their own laws, potent in their own influences. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

God creates out of the dry, dull earth so many flowers of such beautiful colors, and such sweet perfume, such as no painter nor apothecary can rival. From the common ground God is ever bringing forth flowers, golden, crimson, blue, brown, and of all colors. [ M. Luther ]

Objects close to the eye shut out much larger objects on the horizon; and splendors born only of the earth eclipse the stars. So a man sometimes covers up the entire disc of eternity with a dollar, and quenches transcendent glories with a little shining dust. [ Chapin ]

We are born for a higher destiny than earth; there is a realm where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread before us like islands that slumber on the ocean, and where the beings that pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

The wild force of genius has often been fated by Nature to be finally overcome by quiet strength. The volcano sends up its red bolt with terrific force, as if it would strike the stars; but the calm, resistless hand of gravitation seizes it and brings it to the earth. [ Bayne ]

It would not be more unreasonable to transplant a favorite flower out of black earth into gold dust than it is for a person to let money-getting harden his heart into contempt, or into impatience, of the little attentions, the merriments and the caresses of domestic life. [ Mountford ]

What a chimera is man! What a confused chaos! What a subject of contradictions! A professed judge of all things, and yet a feeble worm of the earth! the great depositary and guardian of truth, and yet a mere bundle of uncertainties! the glory and the shame of the universe! [ Pascal ]

Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven. [ Longfellow ]

Words, those fickle daughters of the earth, are the creation of a being that is finite, and when applied to explain that which is infinite, they fail; for that which is made surpasses not the maker; nor can that which is immeasurable by our thoughts be measured by our tongues. [ Colton ]

Even the grasses in exposed fields were bung with innumerable diamond pendants, which jingled merrily when brushed by the foot of the traveler. * * * It was as if some superincumbent stratum of the earth had been removed in the night, exposing to light a bed of untarnished crystals. [ Henry D. Thoreau ]

Whatever of true glory has been won by any nation of the earth; whatever great advance has been made by any nation in that which constitutes a high Christian civilization, has been always at the cost of sacrifice; has cost the price marked upon it in God's inventory of national good. [ J. G. Holland ]

Liberty is one of the choicest gifts that heaven hath bestowed upon man, and exceeds in value all the treasures which the earth contains within its bosom, or the sea covers. Liberty, as well as honor, man ought to preserve at the hazard of his life, for without it life is insupportable. [ Cervantes ]

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light - instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremeties of the earth. [ Lamartine ]

Color is, in brief terms, the type of love. Hence it is especially connected with the blossoming of the earth; and again, with its fruits; also, with the spring and fall of the leaf, and with the morning and evening of the day, in order to show the waiting of love about the birth and death of man. [ Ruskin ]

Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed upon man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains or the sea conceals; for liberty, as for honor, we can and ought to risk our lives; and on the other hand, captivity is the greatest evil that can befall man. [ Cervantes ]

Individuals may wear for a time the glory of our institutions, but they carry it not to the grave with them. Like raindrops from heaven, they may pass through the circle of the shining bow and add to its luster; but when they have sunk in the earth again, the proud arch still spans the sky and shines gloriously on. [ James A. Garfield ]

Was man made to disdain the gifts of nature? Was he placed on earth but to gather bitter fruits? For whom are the flowers the gods cause to bloom at the feet of mortals? It pleases Providence when we abandon ourselves to the different inclinations that He has given us: our duties come from His laws, and our desires from His inspirations.

The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel. [ Pascal ]

There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak? [ Beecher ]

I see the spectacle of morning from the hilltop over against my house, from daybreak to sunrise, with emotions which an angel might share. The long slender bars of cloud float like fishes in the sea of crimson light. From the earth, as a shore, I look out into that silent sea. I seem to partake its rapid transformations; the active enchantment reaches my dust, and I dilate and conspire with the morning wind. [ Emerson ]

If the true spark of religious and civil liberty be kindled, it will burn. Human agency cannot extinguish it. Like the earth's central fire, it may be smothered for a time; the ocean may overwhelm it; mountains may press it down; but its inherent and unconquerable force will heave both the ocean and the land, and at some time or other, in some place or other, the volcano will break out and flame up to heaven. [ Daniel Webster ]

Beauty is an all-pervading presence. It unfolds to the numberless flowers of the spring; it waves in the branches of the trees and the green blades of grass; it haunts the depths of the earth and the sea, and gleams out in the hues of the shell and the precious stone. And not only these minute objects, but the ocean, the mountains, the clouds, the heavens, the stars, the rising and setting sun, all overflow with beauty. [ Channing ]

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending, - the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]

Those who start for human glory, like the mettled hounds of Actaeon, must pursue the game not only where there is a path, but where there is none. They must be able to simulate and dissimulate; to leap and to creep; to conquer the earth like Caesar, or to fall down and kiss it like Brutus; to throw their sword like Brennus into the trembling scale, or, like Nelson, to snatch the laurels from the doubtful hand of Victory, while she is hesitating where to bestow them. [ Colton ]

When I behold a fashionable table set out in all its magnificence, I fancy that I see gouts and dropsies, fevers and lethargies, with other innumerable distempers lying in ambuscade among the dishes. Nature delights in the most plain and simple diet. Every animal but man keeps to one dish. Herbs are the food of this species, fish of that, and flesh of a third. Man falls upon everything that comes in his way; not the smallest fruit or excrescence of the earth, scarce a berry or a mushroom can escape him. [ Addison ]

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that which is before, and discovering how much ground remains to be trodden, it is active and vigilant. Having gained one height, pride looks down with complacency on that which is beneath it; humility looks up to a higher and yet higher elevation. The one keeps us on this earth, which is congenial to its nature; the other directs our eye, and tends to lift us up to heaven. [ James McCosh ]

The grandest operations, both in nature and in grace, are the most silent and imperceptible. The shallow brook babbles in its passage, and is heard by every one; but the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen. The storm rages and alarms, but its fury is soon exhausted, and its effects are partial and soon remedied; but the dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity, and the very life of large portions of the earth. And these are pictures of the operations of grace in the church and in the soul. [ Cecil ]

Why has the beneficent Creator scattered over the face of the earth such a profusion of beautiful flowers? Why is it that every landscape has its appropriate flowers, every nation its national flowers, every rural home its home flowers? Why do flowers enter and shed their perfume over every scene of life, from the cradle to the grave? Why are flowers made to utter all voices of joy and sorrow in all varying scenes? It is that flowers have in themselves a real and natural significance; they have a positive relation to man; they correspond to actual emotions; they have their mission - a mission of love and mercy; they have their language, and from the remotest ages this language has found its interpreters. [ Henrietta Dumont ]

earth in Scrabble®

The word earth is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters earth:

HEART
(36)
HATER
(36)
EARTH
(36)
 

All Scrabble® Plays For The Word earth

EARTH
(36)
EARTH
(32)
EARTH
(27)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In earth

HEART
(36)
HATER
(36)
EARTH
(36)
HATE
(33)
HEAR
(33)
HARE
(33)
HEAT
(33)
HATER
(32)
EARTH
(32)
HEART
(32)
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(27)
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(20)
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earth in Words With Friends™

The word earth is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 7

Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays In The Letters earth:

HEART
(39)
HATER
(39)
EARTH
(39)
 

All Words With Friends™ Plays For The Word earth

EARTH
(39)
EARTH
(28)
EARTH
(27)
EARTH
(27)
EARTH
(27)
EARTH
(26)
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(21)
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(14)
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(14)
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(14)
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(14)
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(12)
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(11)
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(11)
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(11)
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(11)
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(11)
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(10)
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(9)
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The 200 Highest Scoring Words With Friends™ Plays Using The Letters In earth

HEART
(39)
HATER
(39)
EARTH
(39)
HARE
(36)
HEAT
(36)
HEAR
(36)
HATE
(36)
EARTH
(28)
HEART
(28)
HATER
(28)
HATER
(27)
HEART
(27)
HATER
(27)
HEART
(27)
EARTH
(27)
HATER
(27)
HEART
(27)
EARTH
(27)
EARTH
(27)
EARTH
(26)
HATER
(26)
HEART
(26)
HARE
(24)
HEAR
(24)
HEAT
(24)
HATE
(24)
EARTH
(21)
HATER
(21)
HEART
(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(21)
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(20)
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(20)
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(20)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(18)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(16)
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(15)
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Word Growth involving earth

Shorter words in earth

ar art

ar ear

Longer words containing earth

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