Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Anatole France
You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so...
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Denis Diderot
The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra.
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William T. Vollmann
It's probably a merciful thing that pain is impossible to describe from memory
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Christopher Hitchens
Yes. We both have a bad feeling. Tonight we shall take our bad feelings and share them, and face them. We shall mourn. We shall drain the bitter dregs of mortality. Pain shared, my brother, is pain not doubled, but halved. No man is an...
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Neil Gaiman
More Quotes By Alexander Pope
If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest. The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
