"Look to the East, where up the lucid sky; the morning climbs! The day shall yet be fair."

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Source : Celia Thaxter (1896). “The Poems of Celia Thaxter”

Celia Thaxter

#Morning Quotes #Sky Quotes #East Quotes

“It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are.”
“Few people get to earn a living at what they like to do and there are hazards in any profession. Football is something I was made for. I gave the game all I could for as long as I could. I guess my only regret was that my career was too short.”
“But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence”

Source : Winifred Holtby (2011). “South Riding”, p.524, Random House
“The majority of men cannot be made disinterested for life by exhortation, by religious services, by any expenditure of subsidized works, or even by grave and manifest public need. They can be made permanently unselfish only by being helped to become disinterested in their individual purposes. In the complete democracy a man must in some way be made to serve the nation in the very act of contributing to his own individual fulfillment. Not until his personal action is dictated by disinterested motives can there be any such harmony between private and public interests.”
“Am I not a fearsome enemy?" "You frighten me primally.”
“And sometimes it happened, for a time. That kind of love comes and goes and is hard to remember afterwards, like pain. You would look at the man one day and you would think, I loved you, and the tense would be past, and you would be filled with a sense of wonder, because it was such an amazing and precarious and dumb thing to have done; and you would know too why your friends have been evasive about it, at the time.”
“A toleration of slavery is, in effect, a toleration of inhumanity.”

Source : Granville Sharp (2014). “A Representation of the Injustice and Dangerous Tendency of Tolerating Slavery”, p.79, Cambridge University Press
“But what a cruel thing is war to separate and destroy families and friends.”

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