"Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down."

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Source : Walter Raleigh, Henry Wotton, J. Hannah (1929). “The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh”, p.93, Рипол Классик

Henry Wotton

#Character Quotes #Night Quotes #Bed Quotes

“My life is a party, to be experienced and shared with everyone I know!”
“Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.”
“Color is only beautiful when it means something.”
“One is never too old for romance.”
“I just started playing around different clubs, and I got a good reputation around New York City of having good timing, a good right foot, and I was "funky", "soulful", and all that stuff. Then I ran into this group, the Pigeons.”
“It was precisely this notion of infinite series which in the sixth century BC led the Greek philosopher Zeno to conclude that since an arrow shot towards a target first had to cover half the distance, and then half the remainder, and then half the remainder after that, and so on ad infinitum, the result was, as I will now demonstrate, that though an arrow is always approaching its target, it never quite gets there, and Saint Sebastian died of fright.”
“But today in the United States, and this shows you where fascism REALLY exists, Any doctor in the United States who cures cancer using alternative methods will be destroyed. You cannot name me a doctor doing well with cancer using alternative therapies that is not under attack. And I know these people; I've interviewed them.”
“The preparatory education of candidates for knighthood was long and arduous.”

Source : Thomas Bulfinch “Bulfinch's Mythology: Legends of Charlemagne or Romance of the Middle Ages, The Age of Chivalry or Legends of King Arthur and The Age of Fable or Stories of Gods and Heroes (Complete)”, Library of Alexandria

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