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Days and Nights

by Konstantin Simonov

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Feb 16, 2025 10:55AM

“To the deep feeling of love and veneration for home and liberty and to the every growing consciousness of high responsibility which warmed the hearts and guided the actions of the true leaders among our Dutch, English, and American forbears this record of their material achievements is proudly, yet humbly, inscribed with the hope and belief that the same spirit will ever continue a chief strength and inspiration to succeeding generations of happy sojourners upon Manhattan Island.”
― Isaac Newton Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909, Vol. 1: Compiled From Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-Intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps, Plans, Views, and Documents in Public and P...

tags: america, american-history, belief, home, hope, liberty, love, manhattan, new-york-city, veneration

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“Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.”
― Jack London

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“Life is a strange thing. Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins. To live is to toil hard and to suffer sore, till old age creeps heavily upon us and we throw down our hands on the cold ashes of dead fires. It is hard to live. In pain the babe sucks his first breath, in pain the old man gasps his last, and all his days are full of trouble and sorrow; yet he goes down to the open arms of death, stumbling, falling, with head turned backward, fighting to the last. And death is kind. It is only life and the things of life that hurt. Yet we love life and we hate death. It is very strange.”
― Jack London

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