Famous quotes containing the words live, birth and/or rate:
“And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so much,
In a great tempest and with shrouds unkempt.”
—Petrarch (13041374)
“Some say that ever gainst that season comes
Wherein our Saviours birth is celebrated,
The bird of dawning singeth all night long:
And then, they say, no spirit dare stir abroad,
The nights are wholesome, then no planets strike,
No fairy tale nor witch hath power to charm,
So hallowd and so gracious is the time.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“Strange that the vanity which accompanies beautyexcusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandableshould persist after the beauty was gone.”
—Mary A. [Elizabeth, Countess Von] Arnim (18661941)
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