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“O! useful may it be to have shewn, that, though the vicious can sometimes pour affliction upon the good, their power is transient and their punishment certain; and that innocence, though oppressed by injustice, shall, supported by patience, finally triumph over misfortune!And, if the weak hand, that has recorded this tale, has, by its scenes, beguiled the mourner of one hour of sorrow, or, by its moral, taught him to sustain it—the effort, however humble, has not been vain, nor is the writer unrewarded.”

Source: Five Gothic Masterpieces: The Mysteries of Udolpho, The Great God Pan, Frankenstein, Carmilla, and Dracula

“The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!”

Certain House Hours Dark Half Cold Bottom Strikes Clock Dry Half Hours Null

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated... I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!”

Way Age Lasts Night Certain Hours Sleep Eight Fantastic Spokes Last Night

Author:Johnny Depp

“There are places and climates, seasons and hours, with their outward circumstance, so much in harmony with certain impressions of the heart, that Nature and the soul of man appear to be parts of one vast whole.”

Men Heart Soul Whole Certain Hours Circumstances Seasons Harmony Climate Impression

Book:Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

Source: Raphael: Pages of the Book of Life at Twenty

“The illustrious and noble ought to place before them certain rules and regulations, not less for their hours of leisure and relaxation than for those of business.”

Certain Hours Ought Noble Leisure Regulation Relaxation Rules And Regulations

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often.”

Inspirational Persons Country Certain Hours Seeing Quiet Favourite Single Person Peace And Quiet Finland

Author:Christopher Lee

“It might be a good idea to have government totally by the people - that each person takes four or five hours of the week doing some kind of government job - in other words, along with what you do you also help maintain the government so no one person has total control - I might go down to an office for four hours and do whatever I'm capable of doing - writing out receipts for food distribution in a certain area - but it's all actually a monstrous secretarial job and that's all I think it should be.”

People Thinking Should Writing Kind Persons Ideas Helping Government Might Jobs Certain Hours Five Four Week Office Capable Areas Good Ideas Distribution Monstrous Receipts Government Jobs

Author:Grace Slick

“I am the person I want to be. I got to teach and had some of the greatest times in my life learning that I had some teaching skills and doing some incredible things teaching 200 hours of computers a year to fifth graders, making them experts at certain things.”

Want Years Persons Certain Hours Teach Teaching Skills Computer Incredibles Experts Fifth Life Learning Fifth Graders

Author:Steve Wozniak

“In the darkest hour through which a human soul can pass, whatever else is doubtful, this at least is certain. If there be no God and no future state, yet even then it is better to be generous than selfish, better to be chaste than licentious, better to be true than false, better to be brave than to be a coward.”

Ifs Humans Soul States Certain Hours Brave Selfish Being True Generous Coward Be Brave Human Soul There Is No God Doubtful Chaste Darkest Hour

Book:An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library

Source: An address delivered to the members of the Working Man's Institute, at the Town Hall, Brighton, on Thursday, April 18, 1850, on the question of the introduction of sceptical publications into the library

“It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth.”

Light Seems Earth Death Certain Heaven Hours Dark Approach Leaving Dark Hours

Book:Les Miserables Volume One

Source: Les Miserables Volume One

“John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.”

Men Certain Hours Conversation Legs Leisure Obliged Folds Disagreeable

Author:Samuel Johnson

“The dead drug leaves a ghost behind. At certain hours it haunts the house.”

Certain House Hours Behinds Drug Addiction Ghost Smoking Opium Alcohol Addiction Smoking Cigars Funny Smoking

Book:Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings

Source: Cocteau's world: an anthology of writings

“I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.”

Ifs Thinking World Ideas Inspiration Certain Song Hours Projects Creating What If Melody Concerts Tied

Author:Jon Foreman

“We often wonder that certain men and women are left by God to the commission of sins that shock us. We wonder how, under the temptation of a single hour, they fall from the very heights of virtue and of honor into sin and shame. The fact is that there are no such falls as these, or there are next to none. These men and women are those who have dallied with temptation--have exposed themselves to the influence of it, and have been weakened and corrupted by it.”

Men Has Beens Facts Certain Fall Next Left Hours Sin Wonder Virtue Influence Honor Men And Women Shame Temptation Height Shock Exposed

Author:J. G. Holland

“In our most Puritan of society, gambling-like other pleasures-is either taxed, restricted to certain hours, or forbidden altogether. Yet the impulse to gamble remains an eternal aspect of the irrationality of man. It finds outlets in business, war, politics, in the formal overtures of the gambling casinos, and in the less ceremonious exchanges among individuals of differing opinions.”

Men War Certain Individual Hours Pleasure Opinion Eternal Aspect Remains Impulse Gambling Formal Forbidden Outlets Gamble Puritan Casinos Irrationality

Author:Richard Arnold Epstein

“If you want to be watched 24 hours a day in everything you do, you can't turn that around. You can't wake up three years later and say, 'Stop bothering me, I'm a serious actor,' if all you've done is wear certain clothes and show up half-loaded at clubs.”

Ifs Want Years Done Shows Certain Turns Three Actors Hours Half Serious Clothes Wake Up Clubs Bother Three Years Loaded

Author:Ali MacGraw