"Cease, man, to mourn, to weep, to wail; Enjoy thy shining hour of sun; We dance along Death's icy brink, But is the dance less full of fun?"

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Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1880). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî: A Lay of the Higher Law”

Richard Francis Burton

#Fun Quotes #Men Quotes #Shining Quotes

“For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.”
“If you want to be a voice for peace in the world, begin by making peace a permanent condition of your own life.”
“Maybe when I'm sixty-five I'll talk about my literary life.”
“There's an opposite to dÃ©jÃ vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar.”
“To have to introduce a new product at the worst economic time in the last 50 years probably wasn't the greatest thing to have happened.”
“I have a big personality, and I've been attracted to women with big personalities. I think that is usually going to happen when you have big personalities.”
“Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.”
“There is plenty of law at the end of a nightstick.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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