Famous quotes containing the word quiet:
“I love thee to the level of everydays
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhoods faith.”
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.”
—John Ruskin (18191900)
“The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.”
—Cameroonian proverb.
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