Set wide the window. Let me ...

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
 Edith Wharton

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
 Edith Wharton
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
 Edith Wharton
If only wed stop trying to be happy wed have a pretty good time.
 Edith Wharton
...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
 Edith Wharton
And he felt himself oppressed by this creation of factitious purity, so cunningly manufactured by a conspiracy of mothers and aunts and grandmothers and long-dead ancestresses, because it was supposed to be what he wanted, what he had a right to, in order that he might exercise his lordly pleasure in smashing it like an image made of snow.
 Edith Wharton