"My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate."
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"Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together"
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"O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!"
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"Let life be short, else shame will be too long."
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"O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour."
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"Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast."
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"Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let me die, for I have lived long enough."
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"Too long, that some may rest, tired millions toil unblest."
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"Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine."
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"Me this uncharted freedom tires; I feel the weight of chance desires, My hopes no more must change their name, I long for a repose that ever is the same."
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"I think when you've been in a band for a really long time, sometimes you don't appreciate what's good about yourself. It's easy to play something and get too focused on some small detail. It's helpful to have somebody around who can say, "No, that was good." Just so you don't get too lost or forget what you do. You need somebody you really trust who has great taste."
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"I am sorry to have made such a long speech, but I did not have time to write a shorter one."
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"There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed."
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"Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found."
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"Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none."
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"No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives."
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"We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end."
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"Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept."
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"I don't mind dying... as long as I don't have to be there when it happens."
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"I always thought that as long as man is mortal, he will never be relaxed."
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