Count That Day Lost
If you sit down at set of sun
And count the acts that you have done,
And, counting, find
One self-denying deed, one word
That eased the heart of him who heard,
One glance most kind
That fell like sunshine where it went -
Then you may count that day well spent.
But if, through all the livelong day,
You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay -
If, through it all
You've nothing done that you can trace
That brought the sunshine to one face -
No act most small
That helped some soul and nothing cost -
Then count that day as worse than lost.
poem by George Eliot
Added by Veronica Serbanoiu
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Also see the following:
- quotes about illness
- quotes about peace
- quotes about time
- quotes about worry
- quotes about hate
- quotes about words
- quotes about television
- quotes about heart
- quotes about Sun
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