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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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• If you're ninety-five percent of the way to outstanding success, doesn't it make sense to go the additional five percent of the way? ... A marathon which takes hours to run, can be won or lost by a matter of seconds.

  Ralph Marston

  Success, Running, Matter

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• Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours For one lone soul another lonely soul, Each choosing each through all the weary hours, And meeting strangely at one sudden goal, Then blend they, like green leaves with golden flowers, Into one beautiful and perfect whole; And life's long night is ended, and the way Lies open onward to eternal day.

  Edwin Arnold

  Love, Beautiful, Lonely

  Edwin Arnold, “Destiny”

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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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• But woe to him, who left to moan, Reviews the hours of brightness gone.

  Euripides

  Gone, Brightness, Woe

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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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• O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still; Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill While the jolly hours lead on propitious May.

  John Milton

  Heart, May, Woods

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1801). “The Poetical Works of John Milton”, p.449

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• The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dark, House, Null

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 60, 2006.

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• Oh longing for places that were not Cherished enough in that fleeting hour How I long to make good from afar The forgotten gesture, the additional act.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Long, Fleeting, Gestures

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• Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Writing, Night, Answers

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• In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Temptation, Comfort

  Robert Herrick (1891). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Luxury

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1857). “Poetical and Dramatic Works”, p.420

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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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• What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spends all of its time being a tree-frog. We spend all our time trying to be somebody else.

  Stephen Fry

  Tree, Trying, Frogs

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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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• I count only the hours that are serene.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Serene

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1907). “The Measure of the Hours”

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• The hour of justice does not strike On the dials of this world.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Justice, Doe, World

  Maurice Maeterlinck (1907). “The Measure of the Hours”

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• Listen to the Water-Mill: Through the live-long day How the clicking of its wheel Wears the hours away! Languidly the Autumn wind Stirs the forest leaves, From the field the reapers sing Binding up their sheaves: And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, "The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

  Sarah Doudney

  Autumn, Past, Wind

  Sarah Doudney (2017). “Sarah Doudney: Selected Poems and Hymns”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• I got an extra hour's nap.

  Bobby Jones

  Naps, Extras

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• Dawn is about luminosity and so is the iPhone... The little drawings of the dawn are done while I'm still in bed... If you're in my kind of business you'd be a fool to sleep through that... Artists can't work office hours, can they?

  David Hockney

  Sleep, Artist, Iphone

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• I'm lucky because I don't feel too much pressure - it's only in the last hour before the race, and even then it's good, positive pressure.

  Valentino Rossi

  Race, Lucky, Too Much

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