So runs the round of life from hour to hour.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, and after one hour more twill be eleven. And so from hour to...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so, from hour ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby ha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters...
VICTOR FRANKL For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters...
VIKTOR E. FRANKL My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my ...
DEBBIE MACOMBER An hour of violin lessons in Berlin is an hour where you get the child interested in music. An hour ...
DANIEL BARENBOIM Come what come may,
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Irish are never at peace but when they're fighting.
MARY DEASY An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral.
MARY DEASY You go from zero miles per hour to 18,000 miles per hour in 8 1/2 minutes. So, it is the most dynami...
WINSTON SCOTT We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our ...
MARY MCCARTHY Love is the motivating principle by which the Lord leads us along the way towards becoming like Him,...
HENRY B. EYRING His anger is easily excited and appeased, and he changes from
hour to hour.
UNKNOWN We don't normally work 12-14 hour days but the Lord gave us strength.
DEBRA GUHL The first fresh hour of every morning should be dedicated to the Lord, whose mercy gladdens it with ...
CHARLES SPURGEON As we continue down the path of automation, virtually every city will have 24-hour convenience store...
THOMAS FREY And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
W.B. YEATS On the actual competition days, you get about three or four hours of physical exertion - between an ...
HANNAH KEARNEY Hate me an hour, and then turn round
And love me truly, just one minute.
WILLIAM WETMORE STORY People are people, messy and mutable, combining differently with one another from day to day - even ...
ELIZABETH MOON A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of all his years.
ISAAC TAYLOR The first half-hour and the last hour of the day are simply down times. If we can cut out an hour fr...
MARSHA KOET A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life
CHARLES DARWIN Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him. But ...
GEORGE MULLER A man who dares to waste one hour of his life has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN No hour of life is wasted that is spent in the saddle.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL I believe that my whole creative life stemmed from this magic hour under the stars on that hilltop.
RUTH ST. DENIS Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
VICTOR HUGO To waste one hour is a proof that you lack understanding of life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Don’t wait for the last hour of life; to do the things you wish to do.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds...
HORACE MANN Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds ...
HORACE MANN So, this being the content of your happy hour, you decide to break your iron-clad rule, that rule of...
DONALD BARTHELME But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, tha...
DAVID BENIOFF He had two 10-hour beatings from the Americans.
DAVID HICKS O hour, of all hours, the most blesse'd upon earth,
The bless'd hour of our dinners!
LORD LYTTON (EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON) ("OWEN MEREDITH") The bottom is going to be the bottom. It doesn't matter if its $5 an hour or $6 an hour or $100 an h...
GLENN SMITH Convert every minute and hour of your life into perfecting your calling.
SUNDAY ADELAJA I don't have delusions of grandeur. We're not going to take the six-hour round to four hours just be...
ROB O'LOUGHLIN A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
CHARLES DARWIN It is possible to account for the past hour of your life but the products are worthless
SUNDAY ADELAJA The half-hour of crowded anticipation, how fully it pays for the sterile hour that follows!
ELIZABETH BIBESCO So enjoy the pleasures of the hour as not to spoil those that are
to follow.
UNKNOWN From the hour when the Puritan baby opened his eyes in bleak New England, he had a Spartan struggle ...
ALICE MORSE EARLE We're anticipating that the procession will probably take anywhere from about an hour to an hour and...
LT. RAFAEL CINTRON Memphis is moving away from us. What was once an hour and 15 minute-drive now takes an hour and 45 m...
BRUCE BURROW If the past hour was not spent in an activity that adds value to your life; making you a better pers...
SUNDAY ADELAJA The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been t...
WALTER CRONKITE The purpose of the minimum wage is not to give somebody earning $25 an hour a $2-an-hour raise.
CHRIS CRAMER It costs over $19 an hour to operate those centers, if people rent those out they rent them for $25 ...
SCOTT DEUBNER When you waste one hour of your time, you have wasted your life.
SUNDAY ADELAJA Sometimes I feel 15; other times, I feel fully grown and mature and handling all my business. It can...
FKA TWIGS Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
MARK STRAND Speeches that are measured by the hour will die with the hour.
THOMAS JEFFERSON I usually take a two hour nap from one to four
YOGI BERRA I usually take a two-hour nap from one to four.
YOGI BERRA At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
JAWAHARLAL NEHRU The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for th...
C. H. (CHARLES HADDON) SPURGEON From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines.
WALT WHITMAN To sit and pass hour after hour in idle chatter with a roomful of strangers is to me the worst sort ...
SUSANNA CLARKE Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life Matthew 6:27
BIBLE . . . and now expecting
Each hour their great adventurer, from the search
Of foreign words.
JOHN MILTON Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
STEPHEN LEACOCK Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
STEPHEN BUTLER LEACOCK A child's a plaything for an hour.
CHARLES LAMB He went there for an hour and just disappeared.
AL HORFORD You come most carefully upon your hour.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The U.S. Steel Hour.
ALAN ALDA And Eternity in an hour.
WILLIAM BLAKE We would have nights where he was up every hour.
NICKI PERCHIK We're looking at 10-hour days, every day, from the contractors.
WAYNE CARL It's kind of like going from Virginia Beach to L.A. in a 24-hour period.
DANNY MARSHALL It felt like an hour. A couple of seconds can change your life forever.
ERIK EISSINGER She never went backward. But it was hour by hour.
DOUG WOOD You don't get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.
JIM ROHN Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying! I grant you I was down and out of breath; and so was h...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I owe all my success in life to having always been a quarter of an hour beforehand
HORATIO NELSON This veridic nose arrives everywhere a quarter of an hour before its master. Ten shoemakers, good ro...
CYRANO DE BERGERAC Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.
SAM SHEPPARD It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is mos...
ELIZABETH BOWEN In this decisive hour of our national history, union means life and division means death.
BAO DAI It is important that in every hour of your life, producing valuable goods and services
SUNDAY ADELAJA A call for free elections ... has a maximum online life of about half an hour.
JULIEN PAIN Dont count every hour in the day, make every hour in the day count.
ALICE BLOCH Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
APHRA BEHN Office hours are from 12 to 1 with an hour off for lunch.
GEORGE S. KAUFMAN We met with them on the 13th of September to give them a proposal. One of the things ... that we cou...
JAN ADAMS My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so ...
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR It allows us to get away from the hustle and bustle. But we only have an hour, so we have to get in ...
BETSY WILLIAMS It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest half hour.
BILL CLINTON There are special considerations to make. During Iowa Games, we only staff during competitions; all ...
ANDREW ZALASKY The course of management would depend upon his progress and response which is being assessed by the ...
ANUPAM VERMA The course of management would depend upon his progress and response which is being assessed by the ...
DR ANUPAM VERMA To get an extra hour at the beach. To come all this way, get one more hour -- it's worth it.
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I hold you here, root and all, in m...
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In the language wherewith Spring
Letters cowslips on the hill.
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With human hands the creed of creeds
In loveliness of ...
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To join the brimming river,
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Laid widow'd of the power in his eye
That bow'd the will.
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Their every parting was to die.
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One sabbath deep and wide.
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Of that waste place with joy
Hidden in sorrow: at fi...
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Ring'd with the azure ...
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Taken the stars from the night and the sun
From the day!
Gone, and a...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON . . . but while
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And smiles at my best mea...
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That slope through darkness up to God.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Rain, rain, and sun! a rainbow in the sky!
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Believe me, than in half the creeds.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Then the face of night is fair in the dewy downs
And the shining daffodil dies.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And feet like sunny gems on an English green.
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Till the end o' the daay
An the last load hoam.
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That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,
Ruffles her pure cold plume,...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON The wild hawk stood with the down on his beak
And stared with his foot on the prey.
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The deep air listen'd round her as she rode,
An...
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And dew is cold upon the ground,
And the far-off stream ...
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If all the world were falcons, what of that?
The ...
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Glitter like a swarm of fireflies ta...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow.
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For thou hast stolen my will, and made it thine...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And oft I heard the tender dove
In firry woodlands making moan.
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And grow for ever and for ever.
Blow, bugle, blow, set the ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke
From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood,
And ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I heard . . .
. . . the great echo flap
And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
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That reach thro' nature, moulding men.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
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With books and music, surely we
Will drink to him, whate'...
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The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep
...
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Ring out the false, ring in the true.
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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.
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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passio...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Ah! well away!
Seasons flower and fade.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Darker than darkest pansies.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON A life of nothing's nothing worth,
From that first nothing ere his birth,
To that last nothing...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON I do sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Summer isles of Eden, lying in dark purple spheres of sea.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And there they placed a peacock in his pride,
Before the damsel.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The greater man the greater courtesy.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Cast all your cares on God; that anchor holds.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Steps with a tender foot, light as on air,
The lovely, lordly creature floated on.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON Trust me not at all, or all in all.
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Cast your cares on God; that anchor holds.
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it wur draains,
For she hedn't na...
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The shadow of my days.
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LORD ALFRED TENNYSON In after-dinner talk,
Across the walnuts and the wine.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And statesmen at her council met
Who knew the seasons when to take
Occasion by the hand, and m...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON And lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mould a mighty state's decrees,
And shape the whisper ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON When rosy plumelets tuft the larch,
And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff ...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The shell must break before the bird can fly.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perf...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON And is there any moral shut/ Within the bosom of the rose?
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ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Who loves not a false imagining, an unreal character in us; but looking through all the rubbish of o...
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ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Live and lie reclined/ On the hills like Gods together, careless of mankind.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'tis better to have loved and lost t...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON And the sun went down, and the stars came out far over the summer sea,/ But never a moment ceased th...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight d...
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON This gray spirit yearning in desire/ To follow knowledge like a sinking star,/ Beyond the utmost bou...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Once he drew-with one long kiss-My whole soul through his lips.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON For what are men better than sheep or goats/ That nourish a blind life within the brain,/ If, knowin...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON God gives us love. Something to love/ He lends us; but, when love is grown/ To ripeness that on whic...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,/ Tears from the depth of some divine despair.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Nourishing a youth sublime/ With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Believing where we cannot prove.
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON Man is the hunter; woman is his game. The sleek and shining creatures of the chase, we hunt them for...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON A man had given all other bliss, And all his worldly worth for this, To waste his whole heart in one...
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON The woman is so hard upon the woman
ALFRED LORD TENNYSON