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Source: Neither here nor there: travels in Europe

“I love the chill October days, when the brown leaves lie thick and sodden underneath your feet ... the evenings in late autumn time, when the white mist creeps across the fields, making it seem as though old Earth, feeling the night air cold to its poor bones, were drawing ghostly bedclothes round its withered limbs.”

Feelings Seems Earth Lying Night White Poor Air Feet Fields Cold Late Rounds Bones Drawing Evening Brown Autumn Thick Limbs Chill Mist Creeps October Withered

Book:Silhouettes

Source: Silhouettes

“During the course of many years I have observed that a great number of doctors, lawyers, and important businessmen make a habit of visiting a chess club during the late afternoon or evening to relax and find relief from the preoccupations of their work.”

Years Important Courses Numbers Habit Late Doctors Clubs Lawyer Chess Evening Relief Relax Afternoon Businessman Visiting Preoccupation Late Afternoon

Author:Jose Raul Capablanca

“The match will be shown on Match of the Day later this evening and if you don't want to know the result look away now as we show you Tony Adams lifting the cup for Arsenal.”

Ifs Knows Want Looks Shows Results Football Cups Evening Lifting Arsenal

Author:Steve Rider

“Nature is beautiful, and you are in her bosom. That voice of comfort which speaks in the breezes of morning, may visit your mind, that the delightful influences which the green leaves, the blue sky, the moonbeams and clouds of the evening diffuse over the universe, may in their powers of soul-healing, visit your day visions, is my desire and hope.”

Source: Fragmentary remains, literary and scientific, of Sir Humphry, Davy, bart., late president of the Royal society, etc: with a sketch of his life and selections from his correspondence

“The word chrysalis alone is an unmistakable indication that here two dreams are joined together, dreams that be-speak both the repose and flight of being, evening's crystallization and wings that open to the light.”

Two Dream Light Together Speak Wings Flight Evening Indication Repose Chrysalis

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.”

Wells Culture Causes Sound News Losing Consequence Trauma Evening Global Warming Bites Wraps Biodiversity Sound Bites Causes Of Global Warming

Book:Small Wonder

Source: Small Wonder

“Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.”

“If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret.”

Ifs Men Way Life May Dies Morning Regret Evening Right Way

Book:The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius

Source: The Chinese Classics: The life and works of Mencius

“Thou wilt always rejoice in the evening, if thou spend the day profitably.”

Ifs Evening Rejoice

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.”

Heart Sorrow Evening Gladness

Book:Great Speeches

Source: Great Speeches

“Daily prayers can help us keep on the path that leads to eternal life. We are very unlikely to stray if we offer a humble, simple prayer at least each morning and evening to express thanks and to seek divine guidance.”

Ifs Life Helping Prayer Simple Morning Path Divine Offers Eternal Eternity Simplicity Humble Thanks Evening Guidance Divinity Unlikely Eternal Life Divine Guidance Daily Prayer

Author:Joseph B. Wirthlin

“Brothers and sisters, good evening. You all know that the duty of the conclave was to give a bishop to Rome. It seems that my brother cardinals have gone almost to the ends of the earth to get him... but here we are.”

Knows Giving Ends Seems Earth Gone Brother Duty Evening My Brother Rome Brothers And Sisters Bishops Cardinals Good Evening

Author:Pope Francis

“I can't take it y'all I can feel the city breathin Chest heavin, against the flesh of the evening Sigh before we die like the last train leaving”

Feels I Can Lasts Dies Cities Train Leaving Hip Hop Flesh Evening Chests Sigh

Author:Mos Def

“As much as I'd like to meet the tooth fairy on an evening walk, I don't really believe it can happen.”

Believe Happens Walks Teeth Evening Fairy Tooth Fairy

Author:Chris Van Allsburg

“The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science.”

Done Death House Felt Deals Behinds Sun Color Theory Woods Mood Evening Opponents Engaging Chill Obstinate

Book:Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

Source: Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann

“It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.”

Winter Snow Evening Sat Afternoon Limbs Cedars Blackbirds

Book:Wallace Stevens

Source: Wallace Stevens

“All this time I lived with my parents, and wrought on the plantation; and having had schooling pretty well for a planter, I used to improve myself in winter evenings, and other leisure times.”

Wells Used Time Parent Winter Evening Leisure Schooling Prove Myself Plantations Leisure Time Planters

Book:A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences of ... John Woolman ...: To which are added his last epistle, and other writings ...

Source: A journal of the life, gospel labours, and Christian experiences of ... John Woolman ...: To which are added his last epistle, and other writings ...

“On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.”

Silence Winter Evening Frost Lone Winter Love

Book:The poetical works of John Keats

Source: The poetical works of John Keats

“Every day my mother had tea. My dad has his ritual cigar. They had their evening cocktail. Those rituals were done nicely, with flair and feeling.”

Done Feelings Mother Habit Dad My Dad Evening Tea Ritual Cocktails Cigar Flair

Author:John Travolta

“Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love.”