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“Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done?”

Done Eye Past Fall Left Sleep Ought One Day Undone Transactions Thrice Rectitude

Author:Pythagoras

“Be generous to the poor orphans and those in need. The man to whom our Lord has been liberal ought not to be stingy. We shall one day find in Heaven as much rest and joy as we ourselves have dispensed in this life.”

Men Needs Has Beens Joy Heaven Poor Lord He Man Ought One Day This Life Generous Our Lord Orphan Those In Need Stingy Widows And Orphans

Author:Ignatius of Loyola

“Now that I've seen what war is, what civil war is, I know that everybody, if one day it should end, ought to ask himself: "And what shall we make of the fallen? Why are they dead?" I wouldn't know what to say. Not now, at any rate. Nor does it seem to me that the others know. Perhaps only dead know, and only for them is the war really over.”

Ifs Knows Should Doe War Ends Seems Asks Ought One Day Rate Fallen

Author:Cesare Pavese

“Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.”

Church Mankind Ought One Day Animosity Dissension Truce

Book:On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord

Source: On Taste on the Sublime and Beautiful, Reflections on the Revolution, A Letter to a Noble Lord

“I would ask the people who were generous toward my own work. After class one day a poetry professor said to me, "Hey, there's this guy Basho you would find interesting," and so I found Basho. A fiction teacher told me, "You ought to read Clarice Lispector if you're interested in that sort of in-between stuff," and then Lispector appeared. It's not magic. You just keep your eyes open.”

People Ifs Said Eye Guy Asks Found Stuff My Own Interesting Fiction Class Teacher Magic Ought One Day Hey Generous Professors This Guy

Author:John D'Agata

“There ought to be one day - just one - when there is open season on senators.”

Life Humor Inspiration Funny Political Politics Ought One Day Seasons Just One Senators Political Will Best Political Open Season

Author:Will Rogers

“I ought not to have listened to her,' he confided to me one day. 'One never ought to listen to the flowers. One should simply look at them and breathe their fragrance. Mine perfumed all my planet. But I did not know how to take pleasure in all her grace.”

Knows Should Looks Pleasure Know How Grace Mines Planets Flower Ought One Day Breathe Fragrance

Book:The Little Prince:

Source: The Little Prince:

“But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end.”

Knows Way Doe Has Beens Ends Hands Seems Next Taken Too Much Worst Baby Ought One Day Window Shame Indifference Dependent Knots Annihilation Loops Recovering Huts Lanterns

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

“Because you know that's not how you want it to end. You know I'd love to have you with me, and it will be that way, one day. But this isn't the way it ought to happen.”

Knows Way Want Ends Happens Ought One Day

Book:Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)

Source: Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)