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 George Herbert
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky; The dew shall weep thy fall tonight, For thou must die.
Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire: Who blows it not, nor doth control A faint desire,
I will complain, yet praise; I will bewail, approve: And all my sowre-sweet dayes I will lament, and love.
