Hours Quotes - Page 18

• I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

  Willie Nelson

  Exercise, Thinking, Singing

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• O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Humble, Hands, Punishment

  Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Arthur Machen (2017). “Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula”, p.622, Open Road Media

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• Not to hope for things to last forever, is what the year teaches and even the hour which snatches a nice day away.

  Horace

  Change, Nice, Years

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• In New York City, the common bats fly only at twilight. Brick-bats fly at all hours.

  George D. Prentice

  New York, Twilight, Cities

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• Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Attitude, Heart, Winning

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• The hour-hand of life.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hands

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.189, Cambridge University Press

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• Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Retrospect, Found

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1975). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1848-1851”, p.168, Harvard University Press

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• Limit time to the present. Meditate upon your last hour.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Time, Lasts, Limits

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• What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Mother, Father, Men

  William Shakespeare (2016). “Hamlet: Revised Edition”, p.335, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours.

  William Shakespeare

  Relaxation, Lag, Quiet

  'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 23

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• I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

  Mark Twain

  Twenties, Four, Deeds

  Mark Twain (1992). “Twain: Collected Tales, Sketches, Speeches, and Essays, Volume 1: 1852-1890”, p.860, Library of America

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• I would say that the single most important conclusion I reached, after traveling through Japan, as well as countless hours reading, studying, and analyzing this fascinating culture, is that you should always tighten the cap on the shampoo bottle before you put it in your suitcase.

  Dave Barry

  Reading, Japan, Cities

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.205, Ballantine Books

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• People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life.

  George Carlin

  Sleep, People, Gone

  George Carlin (2007). “The Best of Brain Droppings”, p.33, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Father of rosy day, No more thy clouds of incense rise; But waking flow'rs, At morning hours, Give out their sweets to meet thee in the skies.

  Thomas Hood

  Sweet, Morning, Father

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• Holding occasion by the hand, Not over nice 'twixt weed and flower, Waiving what none can understand, I make mine hour.

  John Vance Cheney

  Weed, Nice, Flower

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• There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust.

  John Armstrong

  Way, Waste, Fool

  John Armstrong (2011). “John Armstrong's The Art of Preserving Health: Eighteenth-century Sensibility in Practice”, p.72, Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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• Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for half an hour opens the door into poetry?

  May Sarton

  Doors, Half, Great Men

  May Sarton, Earl G. Ingersoll (1991). “Conversations with May Sarton”, p.122, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.

  Robert Burns

  Night, Black, Arches

  1790 'Tam o' Shanter. A Tale'.

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• What peaceful hours I once enjoy'd! How sweet their memory still! But they have left an aching void The world can never fill.

  William Cowper

  Sweet, Memories, Peaceful

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1854). “The Works: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence and Translations : in Eight Volumes. ¬The poetical works, Vol. 1”, p.41

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• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Queens, Eye, Past

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• To that Providence, my sons, I hereby commend you, and I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Dark, Son, Evil

  SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, Choi Hyun (2016). “The Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.17, ebookspub

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• Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

  John Milton

  Men, Law, Female

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• An hour or two of learning from the masters is usually enough to recharge my artistic batteries.

  James Dean

  Two, Batteries, Artistic

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• I can promise you. If you work 12 hours, I will work for 13. If you work 14 hours, I will work for 15 hours. Why? Because I am not a ‘pradhan mantri’, but a ‘pradhan sevak’.

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Promise, Ifs

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• In the evening I go up in the desert and spend hours watching the sun go down, just enjoying it, and every day I go out and watch it again. I draw some and there is a little painting and so the days go by.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Watches, Desert, Littles

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