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• Yet I will look upon thy face again, My own romantic Bronx, and it will be A face more pleasant than the face of men. Thy waves are old companions, I shall see A well remembered form in each old tree And hear a voice long loved in thy wild minstrelsy.

  Joseph Rodman Drake

  Men, Voice, Rivers

  Joseph Rodman Drake (1835). “The Culprit Fay: And Other Poems”, p.77

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• The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.

  William Cowper

  Rain, Flower, Fall

  William Cowper (1872). “The poetical works of William Cowper: Complete ed., with memoir, explanatory notes etc”, p.419

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• To the old, long life and treasure; To the young, all health and pleasure.

  Ben Jonson

  Treasure, Pleasure, Young

  Ben Jonson (1838). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.620

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• A long, exact, and serious comedy; In every scene some moral let it teach, And, if it can, at once both please and preach.

  Alexander Pope

  Acting, Serious, Comedy

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Dyce (1831). “Poetical Works”, p.162

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• The doubtful beam long nods from side to side.

  Alexander Pope

  Doubt, Sides, Beam

  Alexander Pope (1849). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. Revised and arranged expressly for the use of young people, by W.C. Macready”, p.77

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• The Muse but serv'd to ease some friend, not wife, / To help me through this long disease, my life.

  Alexander Pope

  Wife, Ease, Helping

  "An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot" l. 131 (1735)

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• Thrice happy's the wooing that's not long adoing. So much time is saved in the billing and cooing.

  Richard Harris Barham

  Thrice, Billing, Saved

  Richard Harris Barham (1867). “The Ingoldsby legends; or, Mirth and marvels, by Thomas Ingoldsby. Carmine ed”, p.226

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• The case has been going on for so long that I've forgotten whether I'm really innocent or guilty.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Law, Forgotten, Guilty

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• They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Fate, Long Ago, Blood

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.

  William J. Clinton

  Christian, Hate, Hatred

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• As long as you're working, you stay young.

  George Burns

  Work, Aging, Young

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• No, no, I'm sure, My restless spirit never could endure To brood so long upon one luxury, Unless it did, though fearfully, espy A hope beyond the shadow of a dream.

  John Keats

  Dream, Luxury, Shadow

  John Keats (1818). “Endymion: A Poetic Romance”, p.43

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• I haven't been abroad in so long that I almost speak English without an accent now.

  Robert Benchley

  Travel, Speak English, Accents

  1938 After1903-What?

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• It is easy to believe that life is long and one's gifts are vast -- easy at the beginning, that is. But the limits of life grow more evident; it becomes clear that great work can be done rarely, if at all.

  Alfred Adler

  Believe, Done, Limits

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• Ben Hogan was not really a big hitter. He was long enough. But Ben Hogan today? Ben Hogan today could not compete at Augusta because he did not have the massive length to compete against the long hitters. Power was always an issue at Augusta, but never so dominant that you couldn't play it.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Play, Issues, Today

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• It's incredible to be working with Mr Armani and his team at Emporio Armani. I feel an affinity to the brand ethos and have been a long time admirer of their designs.

  Calvin Harris

  Team, Ethos, Design

  "Calvin Harris' amazing transformation from geek to million dollar DJ" by Claire Rutter, www.mirror.co.uk. December 17, 2014.

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• So long as the New Testament served to decipher the Old, it was taken as an absolute norm.

  Paul Ricoeur

  Taken, New Testament, Norm

  Paul Ricoeur (2005). “The EPZ Conflict of Interpretations”, p.382, A&C Black

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• What sweeter words can fall on the human ear? It's going to be May all week long.

  Russell Baker

  Fall, Ears, May

  Russell Baker (1992). “Poor Russell's almanac”

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• Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.

  Wallace Stegner

  Realizing, Born, Has Beens

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• You'll have games where you're out there a long time. Being able to go through that and not get stiff was a good thing for me, ... As I went along, it felt better, and on that last play [a nifty move to his right and a throw across his body for the final out in the seventh] had a lot of body torque to it, and no problems.

  Nomar Garciaparra

  Moving, Games, Play

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• Language is, in other words, not necessary, but voluntary. If it were necessary, it would have stayed simple; it would not agitate our hearts with ever-present loveliness and ever-cresting ambiguity; it would not dream, on its long white bones, of turning into song.

  Mary Oliver

  Dream, Song, Heart

  Mary Oliver (1998). “West Wind: Poems and Prose Poems”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A lifetime isn't long enough for the beauty of this world and the responsibilities of your life.

  Mary Oliver

  Responsibility, World, Lifetime

  Mary Oliver (2017). “Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver”, p.213, Penguin

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• Nothing has to be true forever. Just for long enough, to tell you the truth.

  Terry Pratchett

  Forever, Enough, Being True

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “The Truth: Stage Adaptation”, p.125, A&C Black

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• All art is holy. Not that it is all long-faced and miserable; it can be wild and wooly. But if it transforms you, it is art. And it is holy.

  Robertson Davies

  Art, Religion, Miserable

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• Do you know what will soon be the ultimate in truth? - photography, once it begins to reproduce colors, and that won't be long in coming. And yet you want an intelligent man to sweat for months so as to give the illusion he can do something as well as an ingenious little machine can!

  Paul Gauguin

  Photography, Intelligent, Men

  Paul Gauguin (1978). “The writings of a savage”, Viking Adult

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