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• Opportunity comes to pass-not to pause.

  James Wallace

  Opportunity

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• Sleep just gives the ego a little time out. It has to stay strong in order to be something that it isn't.

  Byron Katie

  Stay Strong, Sleep, Order

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2013

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• The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain.

  Henry Martyn

  Honesty, Men, Want

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• Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you.

  William Shakespeare

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.234

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• His virtues walked their narrow round,
  Nor made a pause, nor left a void;
  And sure the Eternal Master found
  The single talent well employed.

  Samuel Johnson

  Void, Talent, Virtue

  Samuel Johnson (1816). “The Poetical Works of Samuel Johnson, L.L.D.: With an Account of the Author's Life”, p.109

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• Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Climbing, Hatred

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• There were some ages in Western history that have occasionally been called Dark. They were dark, it is said, because in them learning declined, and progress paused, and men labored under the pall of belief. A cause-effect relationship is frequently felt to exist between the pause and the belief.

  Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk

  Dark, Men, Progress

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• I am one of the lingering bad ones, and so do I slink away, and pause, and ponder, and ponder, and pause, and do work without knowing why - not surely for this brief world, and more sure it is not for heaven - and I ask what this message of Christ means.

  Emily Dickinson

  Mean, Knowing, Heaven

  Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

  Walt Whitman

  Beautiful, Art, Wish

  Walt Whitman (1998). “The Journalism: 1834-1846”, Peter Lang Pub Incorporated

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• The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear, and we find we have arrived--to reach a desert waste.

  George Augustus Henry Sala

  Beautiful, Flower, Future

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• All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Luck, Threshold, Delightful

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• Sometimes, you need to stop taking your medicine to let your body heal itself. Sometimes, you need to pause so you can move forward. Sometimes, you need to turn away from something so you can see why you fell in love in the first place.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Moving, Heal Itself, Medicine

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• This is what the Sabbath should feel like. A pause. Not just a minor pause, but a major pause. Not just lowering the volume, but a muting. As the famous rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel put it, the Sabbath is a sanctuary in time.

  A. J. Jacobs

  Sanctuary, Volume, Should

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• It amazes me how easy it is for things to change, how easy it is to start off down the same road you always take and wind up somewhere new. Just one false step, one pause, one detour, and you end up with new friends or a bad reputation or a boyfriend or a breakup. It's never occurred to me before; I've never been able to see it. And it makes me feel, weirdly, like maybe all of these different possibilities exist at the same time, like each moment we live has a thousand other moments layered underneath it that look different.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Breakup, Wind

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• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

  Guillaume Apollinaire

  Life, Positive, Happiness

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• I need not pause to explain that crime is not a disease. It is criminology that is a disease.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Needs, Disease, Crime

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• Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? Each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully.

  Norton Juster

  Beautiful, Country, Night

  "The Phantom Tollbooth". Book by Norton Juster, www.theguardian.com. 1961.

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• When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: "Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: "Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Wise, Art, Eye

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “This Side of Paradise”, p.184, Xist Publishing

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• If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, "There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Christian, Book, Civilization

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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• A man long accustomed to admire his wife in general, seldom pauses to admire her in a particular gown or attitude, unless his attention is directed to her by the appreciative gaze of another man.

  Willa Cather

  Attitude, Men, Long

  Willa Cather (2002). “The Professor's House”, p.77, U of Nebraska Press

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• Perhaps in time, Ella, the words we have lost will fade, and we will all stop summoning them by habit, only to stamp them out like unwanted toadstools when they appear. Perhaps they will eventually disappear altogether, and the accompanying halts and stammers as well: those troublesome, maddening pauses that at present invade and punctuate through caesura all manner of discourse. Trying so desperately we all are, to be ever so careful.

  Mark Dunn

  Trying, Toadstools, Habit

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• And yet not a dream, but a mighty reality- a glimpse of the higher life, the broader possibilities of humanity, which is granted to the man who, amid the rush and roar of living, pauses four short years to learn what living means

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Dream, Mean, Reality

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• Josh pulls me aside. "Hey, About before, I just... I wanted to say ... well, I think you're pretty special." He says, kind of stumbling over the words a little. Like he's hesitant to say them, now i wish he'd hug me again. And then kiss me. But he doesn't. He just waves and walks off. I sigh. "Hannah, I just... I want you to know if I pause alot when I tell you how special you are I want you to think that I'm... very... very... deep," Finn says

  Elizabeth Scott

  Kissing, Thinking, Special You

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• I don't want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order to get at. I want there to be a waiting time -a pause between the writing and the reading. I want us to be careful about what we say to each other. I want the miles between us to be real and long. This will be our law -that we write our dailiness and our suffering very, very carefully.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Real, Rip, Reading

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• I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame.

  Dodie Smith

  Shame, Repent

  Dodie Smith (2012). “I Capture the Castle”, p.419, Random House

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