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9 Quotes for 'Holidays' in the Database.
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The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in
the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be
celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary
festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance,
by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be
solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns,
bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of the continent
to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
Author: John Quincy Adams
Source: in a letter to Mrs. Adams
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There were his young barbarians all at play
There was their Dacian mother--he, their sire,
Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday.
Author: Lord Byron (George Gordon Noel Byron)
Source: Childe Harold (canto IV, st. 141)
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And that was the way
The deuce was to pay
As it always is, at the close of the day
That gave us--
Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!
(With some restrictions, the fault-finders say)
That which, please God, we will keep for aye
Our National Independence!
Author: Will Carleton
Source: How We Kept the Day
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The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;--
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that our of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that blows!
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Source: Holidays (l. 1)
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Come, woo me, woo me; for now I am in holiday humor and like
enough to consent.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: As You Like It (Rosalind at IV, i)
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If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work;
And nothing pleaseth but rare accidents.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at I, ii)
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Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Romeo and Juliet (Romeo at V, i)
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You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,
Come hither from the furrow and be merry.
Make holiday: your rye-straw hats put on,
And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
In country footing.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Tempest (Iris at IV, i)
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Time for work,--yet take
Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.
Author: George James de Wilde
Source: Sonnet--On the Arrival of Spring
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