The sacred lamp of day
Now dipt in western clouds his parting day.


William Falconer

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The sacred lamp of day Now dipt in western clouds his parting day.
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Enjoy the beauty of a sacred day.
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Monday is the day of silence, day of the whole white mung bean, which is sacred to the moon.
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Every day is spectacular sacred time.
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The sacred lamp, shall never cease to burn to give light.
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No day so clear but hath dark clouds.
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And from the midst of cheerless gloom
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Parting

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The other weak, a parent aged
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At the end of the day, I let myself have a glass of wine.
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At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.
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Day after day, day after day,
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as now I pa...
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A New Year is like a new day; with fullness of sacred grace to fulfill the God-given dreams.
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The creed of greed:

Great Revenue Every Everlasting Day.

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Wisdom of the Ages: "Christmas Eve" The last time three wise men were seen in the Middle East.
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Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
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They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
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When she found a place of her own
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WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Faith is a passionate intuition.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its ro...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
To begin, begin.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from th...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
There are good waves not that far from Manhattan - on Long Island, in north Jersey. It's true th...
WILLIAM FINNEGAN
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic current...
WILLIAM JAMES
As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Now is the winter of our discontent.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
What are gold and jewels and precious utensils? Mere dross and dirt. The human face and the human he...
WILLIAM GODWIN
Art can never exist without naked beauty displayed.
WILLIAM BLAKE
The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perce...
WILLIAM JAMES
I like stirring things up. I'm on the side of the kids more than I am on the adults. And occasio...
WILLIAM JOYCE
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.
WILLIAM GOLDING
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
WILLIAM HAZLITT
The course of true love never did run smooth.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Every seaman is not only a navigator, but a merchant and also a soldier.
WILLIAM PETTY
Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
WILLIAM JAMES
By Thursday morning, we'd gotten over the worst of it.
WILLIAM SCRANTON
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I think it's very important that you make your own decision about what you are. Therefore you...
PRINCE WILLIAM
What Bitcoin started is metamorphosing into something bigger: a 'crypto-tech'-driven economy...
WILLIAM MOUGAYAR
Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, w...
WILLIAM GOLDING
Religion is the most important of all things: the great point of discrimination that divides the man...
WILLIAM GODWIN
Meeting all walks of life, it broadened your horizons, let's say that.
WILLIAM O'NEILL
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t...
WILLIAM WESTMORELAND
These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triump die, like fire and powder
Whi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The trouble with Hollywood is that too many of the top people responsible for pictures are too comfo...
WILLIAM WYLER
Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images t...
WILLIAM LAUD
The ship was named the Bounty: I was appointed to command her on the 16th of August 1787.
WILLIAM BLIGH
I am not bound to please thee with my answer.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER
India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE