Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"Nothing that is can pause or stay."
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Pauses
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Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Hold the old holding hand. Hold and be held. Plod on and never recede. Slowly with never a pause plod on and never recede."
Leo Tolstoy
Novelist, Philosopher
"Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness"
Benjamin Franklin
Inventor, Statesman, Author
"At a great pennyworth pause a while."
Dodie Smith
Author
"I have really sinned. I am going to pause now, and sit here on the mound repenting in deepest shame."
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"I do pauses, pauses work for me"
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"Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can."
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"Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you."
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"Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you."
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"No work begun shall ever pause for death."
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"Opportunity comes to pass-not to pause."
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"I will pause to consider this eternity from which the subsequent ones derive."
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"I do not understand; I pause; I examine."
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