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DAY
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QUOTE-OF-THE-DAY
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A thousand years
in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the
night.
-- Psalms 90:4
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If the stars should appear just one night in a
thousand
years, how would men believe and adore!
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Everything has been said, and we have come too
late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand
years and more.
--Jean de LaBruyere
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Gold has worked down from Alexander's time ...
When something holds good for two thousand
years
I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice
or mistaken theory.
--Bernard Baruch
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5
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I have discovered the dance.
I have discovered the art which has been lost
for two thousand years.
--Isadora Duncan
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I heard what was said of the universe,
Heard it and heard it of several thousand
years;
It is middling well as far as it goes -- but is
that all?
--Walt Whitman
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If people dug up the remains of this civilization
a thousand years hence,
and found Epstein's statues and that man Ellis, they would think we were
just savages.
--Doris Lessing
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8
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand
years to live;
death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while
thou hast time, be good.
-- Marcus Aurelius
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J'ai plus de souvenirs que si j'avais mille
ans.
[I have more memories than if I were a thousand
years old.]
--Charles Baudelaire
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10
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Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties,
and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth
last for a thousand years,
men will still say: `This was their finest hour.'
--Winston Churchill
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Live not as though there were a thousand
years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow;
make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
-- Marcus Aurelius
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Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that
flourish for a thousand years do
not spring up into beauty like a reed.
--George Henry Lewes
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Most of us spent too much time on the last twenty-four
hours and too little on the last six thousand
years.
--Will Durant
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14
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No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat
admission in a thousand years.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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Youth is a silly, vapid state
Old age with fears and ills is rife
This simple boon I beg of Fate
A thousand years
of
Middle Life!
--Carolyn Weeks
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Peace upon earth!' was said. We sing it,
And pay a million priests to bring it.
After two thousand
years of mass
We've got as far as poison-gas.
-- Thomas Hardy
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Ring out old shapes of foul disease,
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand
years of peace.
--Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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The hills are alive with the sound of music
With songs they have sung
For a thousand years.
--Oscar Hammerstein
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The reputation of a thousand
years may be determined by the conduct of
one hour.
-- Unknown
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The world, which took six days to make, is likely
to take us six thousand years to
make out.
--Thomas Browne
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There exists only the present instant... a Now
which always and without end is itself new. There is no yesterday nor any
tomorrow, but only Now, as it was a thousand
years ago and as it will be a thousand
years hence.
--Meister Eckhart
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When Moses was alive, the pyramids were a thousand
years old . . . . Here people learned to measure
time by a calendar, to plot the stars by astronomy . . . . Here they developed
that most awesome of all ideas - the idea of eternity.
--Walter Cronkite
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While all other sciences have advanced, that of
government is at a standstill -- little better understood, little better
practiced now than three or four thousand
years ago.
--John Adams
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Your friends will know you better in the first
minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand
years.
--Richard Bach
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'All honor to him who shall win the prize,'
The world has cried for a thousand
years;
But to him who tries and fails and dies,
I give great honor and glory and tears.
--Joaquin Miller
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A single friar who goes counter to all Christianity
for a thousand years must
be wrong.
-- Charles V
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A thousand years
may
scarce form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
--George Gordon Byron
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[Language] . . . this great instrument which men
have jointly built . . . every word the mystic embodiment of a thousand
years of vanished passion, hope, desire, thought.
-- Voltairine de Cleyre
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. . . so much of the power and passion of the
feminine has been dormant in the underworld in exile for five thousand
years.
-- Sylvia Brinton Perera
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In order to invent the airplane you must have
at least a thousand years'
experience dreaming of angels.
-- Arnold Rockman
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But do not forget this one thing, dear friends:
With the Lord a day is like a thousand years,
and a thousand years are
like a day.
-- 2 Peter 3:8
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