We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed! What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
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Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Each morning puts man on trial and each evening passes judgement.
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Roy L. Smith
I think what has this day brought me and what have I given it?
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Henry Moore
Every night before I turn out the lights to sleep I ask myself this question: Have I done everything that I can.... Have I done enough?
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Each morning sees some task begin each evening sees it close Something attempted something done has earned a night's repose.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
More Quotes By Thomas Hood
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn; --Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that...
Peace and rest at length have come All the day's long toil is past, And each heart is whispering, 'Home, Home at last.
No sun–no moon! No morn–no noon– No dawn– No sky–no earthly view– No distance looking blue– No road–no street–no "t'other side the way"– No end to any Row– No indications where the Crescents go– No top to any steeple– No recognitions of familiar people– No...
SilenceTHERE is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be, In the cold grave–under the deep, deep sea, Or in wide desert where no life is found, Which hath been mute, and still must sleep profound; No...
When Eve upon the first of MenThe apple press’d with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant!
