#pageant

The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

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#evening #king #like #morning #noon

Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in frame, unlimited in space and indefinite in duration. ↗

— DeWitt Clinton

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#ecstatic #enjoyment #frame #indefinite #knowledge