Day/astronomy

Famous quotes containing the words day and/or astronomy:

    “Condemned to Hope’s delusive mine,
    As on we toil from day to day,
    By sudden blasts or slow decline
    Our social comforts drop away.”
    —Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

    “It is noticed, that the consideration of the great periods and spaces of astronomy induces a dignity of mind, and an indifference to death.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)