Famous quotes containing the words keeping, left and/or takes:
“He is keeping a candle burning in a shrine
where nobody comes,
there must be some mystery
in the air
about him.
I am almost afraid to think to myself,
why,
he is there.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)
“We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.”
—Book Of Common Prayer, The. Morning Prayer, “General Confession,” (1662)
“In order to get to East Russet you take the Vermont Central as far as Twitchell’s Falls and change there for Torpid River Junction, where a spur line takes you right into Gormley. At Gormley you are met by a buckboard which takes you back to Torpid River Junction again.”
—Robert Benchley (1889–1945)