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Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.
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Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
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Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
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Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.
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Superior strength is found in the long run to lie with those who had right on their side.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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Surely life, if it be not long, is tedious, since we are forced to call in the assistance of so many trifles to rid us of our time, of that time which never can return.
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Suspicion is rather a virtue than a fault, as long as it doth like a dog that watcheth, and doth not bite.
Works (1912) -
Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a scandal.
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Television has certain imperatives that CNN had the luxury of ignoring for a long period of time. CNN could take the position that the news would be the star, because in most of the programming day, they were the only all-news operation on the air.
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Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time was in a Nielsen number that would arrive sometime after the show had been broadcast. And now, people are just completely engaged on so many levels, and I think that you have to find a way as a show creator to follow your own compass.
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Tell me not here, it needs not saying,
What tune the enchantress plays
In aftermaths of soft September
Or under blanching mays,
For she and I were long acquainted
And I knew all her ways.Last Poems (1922) No. 40, st. 1 -
That old man dies prematurely whose memory records no benefits conferred. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously.
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That which is to be loved long must be loved with reason rather than with passion.
Idler -
That's what all we are: amateurs. We don't live long enough to be anything else.
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That, if then I had waked after a long sleep, will make me sleep again; and then, in dreaming, the clouds me thought would open and show riches ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked I cried to dream again.
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