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Brightness Quote by John Muir

“One can make a day of any size and regulate…” quote by John Muir — Download Open image

“One can make a day of any size and regulate the rising and setting of his own sun and the brightness of its shining.”

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But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

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His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd, and th' excess Of glory obscur'd.

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