"Time and the hour run through the roughest day."
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"Oh for a single hour of that Dundee Who on that day the word of onset gave!"
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"Milton, thou should'st be living at this hour."
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"Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know."
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"I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations."
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"There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read."
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"I'm a very obsessive type. If I do get into it, I'll soon be there 12 hours a day. I just don't want to do that."
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"I like touring extensively because I think the more hours you spend onstage, the more you know who you are onstage."
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"Shakspeare is the only biographer of Shakspeare; and even he can tell nothing, except to the Shakspeare in us; that is, to our most apprehensive and sympathetic hour."
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"Women, as most susceptible, are the best index of the coming hour."
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"There is nothing we value and hunt and cultivate and strive to draw to us, but in some hour we turn and rend it."
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"It is not the irregular hours or irregular diet that makes the romantic life."
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"My hours are peaceful centuries."
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"Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books."
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"I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours."
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"We seldom require more to the happiness of the present hour than to surpass him that stands next before us."
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"So scanty is our present allowance of happiness that in many situations life could scarcely be supported if hope were not allowed to relieve the present hour by pleasures borrowed from the future."
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"Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased."
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"Tragedies come in the hungry hours."
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"The happiest hours of my life have been spent in the flow of affection among friends."
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