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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
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A walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more.
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Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
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Being right half the time beats being half-right all the time.
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Come what come may,
time and the hour runs through the roughest day.Macbeth (1605) -
Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives far within his limits. He possesses power of various sorts which he habitually fails to use.
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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf.
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Honestly, I envy painters, who can have a masterpiece in one morning. Or musicians, who can write something in 30 minutes and arrange it in an hour, sometimes. 'Cause with this, with writing, you can occasionally feel like a caveman, like you've been working with pitch and tar on this brush.
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In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
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It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life.
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Since the German people, with unparalleled heroism, but also at the cost of fearful sacrifices, has waged war against half the world, it is our right and our duty to obtain safety and independence for ourselves at sea.
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Small bodies, about half a micron in diameter, and later referred to under the name of 'mitochondria' were detected under the light microscope as early as 1894.
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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.
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The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistorical acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
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Their sighing , canting , grace-proud faces, their three-mile prayers, and half-mile graces.
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We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.
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Whatever women do they must do it twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.
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