A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People who look down never get much of an idea of the sky where the stars are set. And the fellow who doesn't hitch at least one or two of his wagons to a star never gets very high up. Get your eyes off the ground. Look ahead.
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
It is written on the arched sky; it looks out from every star. It is the poetry of Nature; it is that which uplifts the spirit within us.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
No one regards what is before his feet; we all gaze at the stars.
The stars are scattered all over the sky like shimmering tears, there must be great pain in the eye from which they trickled.