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- We burn daylight.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 4
- Now cracks a noble heart. Good night sweet prince:
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest! - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "Hamlet", Act 5 scene 2
- We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861 - 1941)
- What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
- M. C. Escher (1898 - 1972), Quoted in Comic Sections, D. MacHale (Dublin 1993)
- Alas my love you do me wrong,
To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company. - Anonymous, Greensleeves
- The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed to me contemptible.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)
- Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.
- Cicero (106 BC - 43 BC)
- The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
- Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD)
- Desultory reading is delightful, but to be beneficial, our reading must be carefully directed.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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