"Hail, gentle Dawn! mild blushing goddess, hail!Rejoic'd I see thy purple mantle spreadO'er half the skies, gems pave thy radiant way,And orient pearls from ev'ry shrub depend."

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Source : "The Chace" by William Somervile, (Bk. II, line 79), 1735.

William Somervile

#Sky Quotes #Purple Quotes #Half Quotes

“Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base”
“You have to understand that we've had more than 40 years now of massively financed propaganda called the 'War on Drugs'.”
“Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.”
“Make a point to continually search for a better way of doing things, even when things are going well, to ensure that a better alternative has not been overlooked and to keep your creative talents in practice.”
“The calculative exactness of practical life which the money economy has brought about corresponds to the ideal of natural science: to transform the world by mathematical formulas. Only money economy has filled the days of so many people with weighing, calculating, with numerical determinations, with a reduction of qualitative values to quantitative ones.”

Source : Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.412, Simon and Schuster
“The night is there, we're trying to ignore the night, the night was always there as children.”
“[On reporters trying to cajole a smile from her husband, Alan Greenspan:] For a Federal Reserve chairman, that was a smile.”
“Before acting, I wanted to become a journalist. I also toyed with the idea of being a chef - but that's only when people asked me what I wanted to be. In fact, I always used to say I wanted to be an actor, but I didn't ever believe that I was good enough to be come one.”

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