"My sweetest Lesbia, let us live and love, And though the sager sort our deeds reprove, Let us not weigh them. Heaven's great lamps do dive Into their west, and straight again revive, But soon as once set is our little light, Then must we sleep one ever-during night. See Catullus 200:5."

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Source : 'A Book of Airs' (1601) no. 1; translation of Catullus 'Carmina' no. 5.

Thomas Campion

#Sleep Quotes #Night Quotes #Light Quotes

“Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for the gift itself and later, in recall, for the miracle of having been given it.”
“Correct me if I am wrong, but I personally feel that the Indian body type is not cut out to be size zero. I am not size zero and I don't believe in that either.”

Source : "Padukone: 'Size zero doesn't suit Indians'" by Will Astbury, www.digitalspy.com. March 8, 2010.
“You just have to have the right gear and a few people to put you in motion with a good aesthetic and the film will take care of itself.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Probably not for about 10 years, because I've got so much to do before then, but I really want to have four kids . . . I'd love them to have adorable little American accents, but I do want to bring my kids up in Australia. It's such a good lifestyle.”

Source : "Margot Robbie makes it hard to Focus with VERY sexy Vogue Australia shoot" by Fay Strang, www.mirror.co.uk. February 15, 2015.
“hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in chemistry, thinking I would attend medical school. Ultimately, I decided that a career in nursing would allow more time for pursuing other creative interests. While I worked as an RN, I wrote stories inspired by my patients, designed t-shirts, and made hand-painted sandals.”

Source : Source: www.yabookshelf.com
“This is only one step in a much larger project. I discovered (no, not me: my team) the function of sugar nucleotides in cell metabolism. I want others to understood this, but it is not easy to explain: this is not a very noteworthy deed, and we hardly know even a little.”
“There is nothing which so certifies the genuineness of a man's faith as his patience and his patient endurance, his keeping on steadily in spite of everything.”

Source : D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones (2016). “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cures”, p.144, Zondervan
“Eating words has never given me indigestion.”

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