"Old Year! upon the Stage of Time You stand to bow your last adieu; A moment, and the prompter's chime Will ring the curtain down on you."

-- Robert W. Service

#Years Quotes #Progress Quotes #Lasts Quotes

“Knowledge will not always take the place of simple observation.”
“You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!”
“A woman's beauty is one of her great missions.”

Source : Richard le Gallienne (1895). “Prose Fancies (Complete)”, p.82, Library of Alexandria
“Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.”
“I exercise five days a week at home.”

Source : "Beauty Diaries at Every Age" by Jessica Prince Erlich, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 10, 2012.
“If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think.”
“My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.”
“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandonds himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.”

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