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• There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.

  George Eliot

  Peace, Morning, Pain

  "Felix Holt, the Radical". Book by George Eliot. Introductory chapter, 1866.

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• Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

  Gloria Naylor

  Jobs, Work, Doors

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• In the opening to the Mary Tyler Moore Show Mary's in the supermarket, hurrying through the aisles. She pauses at the meat case, picks up a steak and checks the price. Then rolls her eyes, shrugs and tosses it in the cart. That's kind of how I feel. Sure I would have liked things to be different. But, 'roll of eyes' what can you do? 'shrug' I threw the meat in my cart and moved on.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Eye, Meat, Moved On

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• There are two types of compassion. One - is faint-hearted and sentimental. Actually, it is nothing more than impatience of the heart, that is hurrying to get rid of that hard feeling when you see other peoples' sufferings; this is not a compassion, but just an instinct will to defence yourself from misfortunes of others. But there is another compassion - real one, that demands for actions, not sentiments, it knows what it wants, and it is full of determination to do everything, what is in human power and even beyond it.

  Stefan Zweig

  Love, Dream, Determination

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• I am as certain as I am standing here, that the secret of much mischief to our own souls, and to the souls of others, lies in the way that we stint, and starve, and scamp our prayers, by hurrying over them.

  Alexander Whyte

  Prayer, Lying, Soul

  Alexander Whyte (1903). “The apostle Paul”

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• Do you know what happens when you always look before you leap?" She reached out and touched his hand before hurrying toward the door. "You hardly ever make the jump.

  Nora Roberts

  Doors, Hands, Looks

  Nora Roberts (2003). “Key Of Light”, p.123, Penguin

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• You are hurrying to the sweet place, To the nonsense chasing your spirit And in the nonsense you look for answers.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Sweet, Looks, Answers

  "Circling: 1978-1987" by Dejan Stojanovic, Krugovanje, Narodna knjiga, Alfa, Beograd, "The Circle," (p. 39), 1993.

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• There's no advantage to hurrying through life." -Shikamaru Nara

  Masashi Kishimoto

  Patience, Advantage, No Patience

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• Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for a knowledge of what is not to be arrived at, but let us open our leaves like a flower, and be passive and receptive, budding patiently under the eye of Apollo, and taking hints from every noble insect that favours us with a visit - sap will be given us for meat and dew for drink.

  John Keats

  Flower, Knowledge, Eye

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.63, Oxford University Press, USA

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• life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Running, Sweet

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.375, Simon and Schuster

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• My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Death’s note wants to climb over— but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Beautiful, Song, Dark

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1981). “Selected Poems”

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• I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Strength, Lying, Opportunity

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• As I criss-cross the city hurrying, I feel always the unchanging cold beneath the pavement.

  Mason Cooley

  Cities, Pavement, Cold

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• And shall I pray Thee change Thy will, my Father, Until it be according unto mine? But, no, Lord, no, that never shall be, rather I pray Thee blend my human will with Thine. I pray Thee hush the hurrying, eager longing, I pray Thee soothe the pangs of keen desire— See in my quiet places, wishes thronging— Forbid them, Lord, purge, though it be with fire.

  Amy Carmichael

  Christian, Father, Inspiration

  Amy Carmichael (1999). “Mountain Breezes: The Collected Poems of Amy Carmichael”, p.344, CLC Publications

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• A chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting, and time's busy fingers are not practiced in re-splicing broken ties. Meet again you may; will it be in the same way? With the same sympathies? With the same sentiments? Will the souls, hurrying on in diverse paths, unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, rarely!

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Goodbye, Dream, Farewell

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• Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.

  A. A. Milne

  Inspirational, Life, Patience

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• The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

  Bob Hope

  Long, Age, Growing

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• Paradoxical as it may seem, the purposeful life has no content, no point. It hurries on and on, and misses everything. Not hurrying, the purposeless life misses nothing, for it is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.

  Alan Watts

  Goal, Missing, World

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• When the leaves rustle, they sound very much like the stealthy movement of a woman in evening dress, and when they shiver suddenly, and fall, and scatter away along the ground, they might be the patter of a woman’s hurrying footsteps, and the mark in the gravel the imprint of a high-heeled shoe.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Fall, Shoes, Sound

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• For the perfect accomplishment of any art, you must get this feeling of the eternal present into your bones - for it is the secret of proper timing. No rush. No dawdle. Just the sense of flowing with the course of events in the same way that you dance to music, neither trying to outpace it nor lagging behind. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.

  Alan Watts

  Art, Accomplishment, Perfect

  Alan W. Watts (2010). “Does It Matter?: Essays on Man s Relation to Materiality”, p.32, New World Library

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• We find real joy when we keep the Savior the focus of the season.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Real, Focus, Joy

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• I was hurrying through my own soul . . . I was leaning out . . . I was listening.

  Mary Oliver

  Soul, Listening, My Own

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• The Masonic Fraternity is one of the most helpful mediating and conserving organizations among men, and I have never wavered from that childhood impression, but it has stood steadfastly with me through the busy, vast hurrying years.

  William Howard Taft

  Men, Years, Organization

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• Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

  Walt Whitman

  New York, Light, Ohio

  Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.534, NYU Press

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• If you cannot bear the silence and the darkness, do not go there; if you dislike black night and yawning chasms, never make them your profession. If you fear the sound of water hurrying through crevices toward unknown and mysterious destinations, do not consider it. Seek out the sunshine. It is a simple prescription. Avoid the darkness.

  Loren Eiseley

  Sunshine, Simple, Night

  Loren Eiseley (2016). “The Night Country: A Library of America eBook Classic”, p.17, Library of America

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