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Not a day without a line drawn: Pliny the Elder attributes this maxim to Apelles, an ancient Greek artist. nulla dies umquam memori vos eximet aevo: No day shall erase you from the memory of time: From Virgil's Aeneid, Book IX, line 447, on the episode of Nisus and Euryalus. nulla poena sine lege: no penalty without a law
which translates to "No day will ever erase you from the memory of time" (French: Aucun jour ne t'effacera jamais de la mémoire du temps). The heroes commemorated in the monument are: From the French Regime (1534–1763):
The lines in your face that your mirror shows you will remind you of the open mouths of fresh graves. The hands of the dial will truly teach you how time thievishly keeps leading towards eternity. What your memory cannot keep, you should write down, and when you return to them you will find that they are like well-nursed children born of your ...
On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln delivered his historic Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Pennsylvania.
Time's Paces is a poem about the apparent speeding up of time as one gets older. It was written by Henry Twells (1823–1900) and published in his book Hymns and Other Stray Verses (1901). The poem was popularised by Guy Pentreath (1902–1985) in an amended version.
Sonnet 63 is one of 154 sonnets published in 1609 by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.It is one of the Fair Youth sequence. Contrary to most of the other poems in the Fair Youth sequence, in Sonnets 63 to 68 there is no explicit addressee, and the second person pronoun (you or thou) is not used anywhere in sonnets 63 to 68.
In principle, the word dies, day, is rather masculine but it is sometimes found in the feminine form, either in traditional expressions like the one presented here, with an almost poetic connotation, or to signify an important day, hence for example the formula dies irae, dies illa, "day of anger that day", in the official text of a Requiem (in the masculine, one would have dies ille).
The National Anthem is No. 1, although nobody knows the words to the second verse. Then there’s ‘God Bless America,’ ‘White Christmas,’ and the ‘Victory March.’ ...