Sunday, December 31, 2017

Thought for the Day


New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause
in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of
silence among created things that the passage of another
twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite
the same thoughts this evening. . . .
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
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Quoted from Hamilton Wright Mabie, My Study Fire (Dodd, Mead & Co.), pages 62-63

Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846-1916), American Essayist, Editor, Critic, Lecturer

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