Quotes with pauses

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• Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

  George Eliot
  English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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• The man who pauses on the paths of treason, Halts on a quicksand, the first step engulfs him.

  Aaron Hill
  English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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• The most precious things in speech are pauses.

  Ralph Richardson
  English actor (1902 - 1983)
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• The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.

  Artur Schnabel
   
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• The true law of the race is progress and development. Whenever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

  William Gilmore Simms
  American poet, novelist and historian (1806 - 1870)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• infatuations
• civilization
• overthrown
• barbarian
• pianists
• progress

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