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• If, because of anxiety and self-doubt, you procrastinate and only think about working, you'll feel more exhausted than if you'd created for hours.

  Eric Maisel

  Thinking, Self, Anxiety

  Eric Maisel (2000). “The Creativity Book: A Year's Worth of Inspiration and Guidance”, p.231, Penguin

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• Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind!

  Paul Hamilton Hayne

  Twilight, Heart, Shining

  Paul Hamilton Hayne (1860). “Avolio: A Legend of the Island of Cos. With Poems, Lyrical, Miscellaneous, and Dramatic”, p.79

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• Most people have this perception that you have to be out there running for an hour and a half every day. But you don't have to give up your career and family to run a marathon.

  Jeff Galloway

  Running, Giving Up, Careers

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• Courage and cheerfulness will not only carry you over the rough places in life, but will enable you to bring comfort and help to the weak-hearted and will console you in the sad hours.

  William Osler

  Sad, Comfort, Helping

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.302, Duke University Press

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• The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Character, Blood, Choices

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• Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fate, Army, Moments

  To Dr. Arnott, April 1821.

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• Golf is a wonderful exercise. You can stand on your feet for hours, watching somebody else putt.

  Will Rogers

  Exercise, Golf, Feet

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• At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Powerful, Sleep, Long

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1967). “Sept. 1964-May 1949”

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• Soul of Christ, sanctify me. Body of Christ, save me. Blood of Christ, inebriate me. Water from the side of Christ, wash me. Passion of Christ, strengthen me. O good Jesus, hear me. Within Thy wounds hide me. Permit me not to be separated from Thee. From the wicked foe defend me. At the hour of my death call me. And bid me come to Thee. That with Thy saints I may praise Thee For ever and ever. Amen.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Jesus, Passion, Blood

  Saint Ignatius (of Loyola) (1951). “The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius: A New Translation Based on Studies in the Language of the Autograph”

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• I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. . . . I will come within a pint of wine.

  Richard Steele

  Home, Wine, Two

  Sir Richard Steele (1787). “The Epistolary Correspondence of Sir Richard Steele ..”, p.36

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• Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.

  Charles Marion Russell

  Horse, Cowboy, Men

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• I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

  Walter Cronkite

  Birthday, Regret, Want

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• Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Animal, Men, Voice

  Theodore Roosevelt (1983). “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail”, p.39, U of Nebraska Press

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• Only--but this is rare--
  When a beloved hand is laid in ours,
  When, jaded with the rush and glare
  Of the interminable hours,
  Our eyes can in another's eyes read clear,
  When our world-deafen'd ear
  Is by the tones of a loved voice caress'd--
  A bolt is shot back somewhere in our breast,
  And a lost pulse of feeling stirs again.
  The eye sinks inward, and the heart lies plain,
  And what we mean, we say, and what we would, we know.
  A man becomes aware of his life's flow,
  And hears its winding murmur; and he sees
  The meadows where it glides, the sun, the breeze.

  Matthew Arnold

  Lying, Heart, Mean

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.25, Courier Corporation

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• Witness, eternal God! Oh, witness that, from this hour, I will do what one man can to drive out this curse of slavery from my land!

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Men, Land, Slavery

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.1365, Modern Library

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• We cannot kindle when we will The fire which in the heart resides, The spirit bloweth and is still, In mystery our soul abides: But tasks in hours of insight will'd Can be through hours of gloom fulfill'd.

  Matthew Arnold

  Heart, Fire, Soul

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• Of the time that is allotted to man here on the earth there is none to lose or waste. After suitable rest and relaxation there is not a day, hour or minute that we should spend in idleness, but every minute of every day of our lives we should strive to improve our minds and to increase the faith of the holy Gospel, in charity, patience, and good works, that we may grow in the knowledge of the truth as it is spoken and prophesied of and written about.

  Brigham Young

  Men, Mind, Relaxation

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• Dreams are the subtle Dower
  That make us rich an Hour
  Then fling us poor
  Out of the purple door.

  Emily Dickinson

  Dream, Doors, Purple

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.1656, Delphi Classics

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• A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Time, Real, War

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• Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force: But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power?

  Matthew Arnold

  Time, Healing, Europe

  Matthew Arnold (1994). “Dover Beach and Other Poems”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• I worked three and then six hours a day in my studio with strict discipline and emotion. I obtained awards usually granted to other foreigners during the end-of-year admission tests.

  Ralph Allen

  Awards, Years, Discipline

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• Recruiting is hard. It's just finding the needles in the haystack. You can't know enough in a one-hour interview. So, in the end, it's ultimately based on your gut. How do I feel about this person? What are they like when they're challenged? I ask everybody that: 'Why are you here?' The answers themselves are not what you're looking for. It's the meta-data.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Data, Answers

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• A tyrst with destiny - A the stroke of midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awaken to life and Freedom

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Change, Sleep, Destiny

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• Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Opportunity, Next Day, Appreciate

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Why Some Positive Thinkers Get Powerful Results”, p.53, Open Road Media

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• I pulled a hamstring during the New York City Marathon. An hour into the race, I jumped off the couch.

  David Letterman

  Running, New York, Cities

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