Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.
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SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
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SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...
WALTER SCOTT Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to fi...
JAMES THURBER Sean O'Connell: Sometimes I don't. If I like a moment, for me, personally, I don't like to have the ...
JAMES THURBER Thunder without sound jolted the air around her. The violence of it was magnificent, immaculate, glo...
TERRY GOODKIND A world without sound is a world without existence.
SEAN CROSBY 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 Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C. One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN The sound of water is worth more than all the poets' words.
OCTAVIO PAZ The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN One suggestion with a spark of truth is worth a hundred repetitions of sound platitudes.
LIU BINYAN The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH No piensas en mí como yo en ti. No me importa. Pero si también tienes frío, podrías acercarte y ...
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“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of on...
POPE FRANCIS My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.
PAUL TAYLOR To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other,...
THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY DOWNLOAD FREE 90541 There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.
KATE DICAMILLO Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Sounds Is Love of All, the World
Sounds create soulful existence,
When the ...
JOHN SHELTON JONES she said. ''I don't want to sound embarrassing, but he looks sensual.
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN Music is the sound of unspoken thoughts.
DAN GROAT I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. When Arecibo is not listening to anything else, it hears the voice of creation.
TED CHIANG Si miramos el fuego es porque parpadea, porque resplandece. Lo que atrae nuestra mirada es la luz, p...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an a...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL Maya Angelou had the ability to glean inspiration out of pain.
THE PROPHET OF LIFE If we cannot always be entirely sane in our relationships, the kindest thing we can do for those who...
THE SCHOOL OF LIFE It's as though one region of the state has been erased, and we have to start from the beginning and ...
THE CLARION-LEDGER he had a gun, and that was the gun he was going to use to take me out.
THE CLARION-LEDGER It was the only place we could swim,
THE CLARION-LEDGER We should be ready to help one another whether we know them or not, ... That's the message I'm getti...
THE CLARION-LEDGER I'm so ready for them to go to school,
THE CLARION-LEDGER We Are Taking New Orleans Back.
THE CLARION-LEDGER time had been taken with those kids.
THE CLARION-LEDGER as important as anything I've done as an owner.
THE CLARION-LEDGER Had I done it, I wouldn't have any regrets.
THE CLARION-LEDGER We find this fiscal situation troublesome and urge your administration to follow the examples of pre...
THE CLARION-LEDGER My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep.
MARK STRAND To get an extra hour at the beach. To come all this way, get one more hour -- it's worth it.
JACK SCOTT The real world out there isn't nearly as nice as some people prefer it to be, so don't swallow every...
DAVID EDDINGS Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
MOHANDAS GANDHI Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
JOHN A. SHEDD Winter solitude-
in a world of one colour
the sound of the wind.
BASHō MATSUO Sound has a profound effect on the senses. It can be both herd and felt. It can even be seen with th...
LOUIS COLAIANNI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING I've had a weird couple of weeks, you know?"
"I completely know".
"But I- I mean, I'm not ...
BRYAN LEE O'MALLEY I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself...
BENJAMIN SPOCK “Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itse...
ASHISH KUMAR You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
HENRY JAMES Now isn´t the time to change yourself to fit into the world... you should be changing the world to ...
ALEXANDRA BRACKEN Richer is one hour of repentance and good works in this world than all of life of the world to come;...
THE TALMUD There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE Metal rusts, music lasts forever.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
KAREN HACKEL We don't know all the truth! We only know all the lies!
ANTHONY T.HINCKS Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Don't go around thinking the world owes you a living. It was here first.
MARK TWAIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th...
JIM GENOVESE If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ Philosophies of the world:
Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow
Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it
West...
APURVA GAGLANI Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv...
NICKOLE SANDERS We sound an alarm, a call to arms and a wake-up call to the world. A world in which an extreme and e...
DAN GILLERMAN One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence
ANDRE KOSTELANETZ Clapping is easily the best example of self-amplification in the world. It sprouts from a single wha...
PAWAN MISHRA ... the very least one requires for civilisation to survive is an adequate supply of sound wines.
CYNTHIA HARROD-EAGLES The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home.
BEN OAK It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a...
GEORGE F. WILL What gets people into trouble with records now is that they want to build something up without subst...
WALTER BECKER We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an...
KARL MARX All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.
BILLY PAUL Around, around,
Companions all, take your ground,
And name the bell with joy profound!
C...
JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER A heart without the rhythm of music never make a sound...
THESULA GUYRUKA ILESINGHE Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE An idea may sound penny in the mind,but if implemented can be worth more than diamond & platinum.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Divine sound is the cause of all manifestation. The knower of the mystery of sound knows the mystery...
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Of all his guilt let him be shriven,
...
SIR WALTER SCOTT It [true love] is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth wh...
SIR WALTER SCOTT England was merry England, when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
'Twas Christmas broach...
SIR WALTER SCOTT In listening mood she seemed to stand,
The guardian Naiad of the strand.
SIR WALTER SCOTT In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Delightful praise!--like summer rose,
That brighter in the dew-drop glows,
The bashful maiden'...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Hard toil can roughen form and face,
And want call quench the eye's bright grace.
SIR WALTER SCOTT St. Leon raised his kindling eye,
And lifts the sparkling cup on high;
"I drink to one," he sa...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Jock, when he hae naething else to do, ye may be aye sticking in
a tree; it will be growing, Jock, ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let him who has granted a favour speak not of it; let him who has
received one, proclaim it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT Let ease and rest at times be given to the weary.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is the fault of youth that it cannot restrain its own
impetuosity.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is part of the cure to wish to be cured.
[Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.
SIR WALTER SCOTT It is a disgrace to say one thing and think another; but how much
more disgraceful to write one thi...
SIR WALTER SCOTT If you live according to the requirements of nature, you will
never be in want; if according to the...
SIR WALTER SCOTT I do not sacrifice, but lend myself to business.
SIR WALTER SCOTT He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the
afflicted, denies it.
SIR WALTER SCOTT