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Is there nothing to sing about to-day? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be. Is this world dreary? Then… — Charles Spurgeon
Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As a child I often wondered whether I would be allowed to live such moments- to inhabit the slow, majestic ballet of the snowflakes, to… — Muriel Barbery
The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, O’er a plan to venge myself upon that cursed Thursday Next- This Eyre affair,… — Jasper Fforde
There is nothing dreary or doubtful about (the life). It is meant to be continually joyful...We are called to a settled happiness in the Lord… — Amy Carmichael
I cannot live without brainwork. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world?… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I was in disbelief that I’d just explained my dreary life to this bizarre, beautiful boy who may or may not despise me. Bella Swan — Stephenie Meyer
On occasions, global or personal, we may feel we are distanced from God, shut out from heaven, lost, alone in dark and dreary places. Often… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Monotony has nothing to do with a place; monotony, either in its sensation or its infliction, is simply the quality of a person. There are… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am wary of the whole dreary deadening structured mess that we have built into such a glittering top-heavy structure that there is nothing left… — John D. MacDonald
She would allow him to comfort her. And perhaps, someday, she would listen patiently if a dark, dreary night found him well in his cups… — Tessa Dare
But 'why then publish?' There are no rewards Of fame or profit when the world grows weary. I ask in turn why do you play… — Lord Byron
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping,… — Edgar Allan Poe
The old church tower and garden wall Are black with autumn rain And dreary winds foreboding call The darkness down again — Emily Bronte
So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him. — Will Durant
Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone,… — Albert Camus
If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from… — Brandon Sanderson
Once upon a midnight dreary — Edgar Allan Poe
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be… — Alberto Moravia
It reminded him that time was short, but that beautiful endings could still be found at the end of cold, dreary days. — Jamie Ford
Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed… — Emily Bronte
Nae man can tether time or tide; The hour approachesTam maun ride; That hour, o'night's black arch the key-stane, That dreary hourTam mounts his beast… — Robert Burns
I have always felt that the moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter… — Monica Baldwin
From the top of a high rock, I obtained a good few of the most extensive and dreary wilderness I ever beheld. It chilled the… — John James Audubon

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