Famous quotes containing the words ten day, double, ten and/or day:
“Ten days and nights, with sleepless eye,
I watched that wretched man,
And since, I never dare to write
As funny as I can.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809–1894)
“On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend’s life also, in our own, to the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer.”
—William Blackstone (1723–1780)
“Father who endest all,
Pity our broken sleep;
For we lie down with tears
And waken but to weep.”
—Cecil Day Lewis (1904–1972)
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