"Beside the brook and on the umbered meadow, Where yellow fern-tufts fleck the faded ground, With folded lids beneath their palmy shadow The gentian nods in dewy slumbers bound."

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Source : Sarah Helen Whitman (1853). “Poems”, p.61

Sarah Helen Whitman

#Yellow Quotes #Shadow Quotes #Slumber Quotes

“Dreams do not work unless you do.”
“When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty, ihen happiness comes of itself.”
“Preach the gospel to all the world! It is [as] free to all mankind as the air we breathe.”
“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.”
“Well, what are we waiting for? ...She said 'children.' I bet that's anyone under a couple of centuries old. Let's go.”

Source : Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonQuest: A Novel”, p.252, WaterBrook
“Objects let you tell a narrative that encompasses everybody. Texts don't.”
“Nothing is to be preferred before justice.”
“Loyalty is not won by being first. It is won by being best.”

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