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Source: The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author

“Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? What tho' we wade in Wealth, or soar in Fame? Earth's highest station ends in 'Here he lies;' and 'Dust to dust' concludes the noblest songs.”

Ends Earth Lying Song Hours Wealth Fame Highest Dust Triumph Stations Toil Soar Wade Dust To Dust

Book:Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality

Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality

“I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.”

Knows Eye Hours Gone Mines Travel Glad Grieving Shore

Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”

Ifs Hours Heavy Scandal

Book:Literary and historical miscellanies

Source: Literary and historical miscellanies

“Resident mockery, give us an hour for magic.”

Giving Hours Magic Mockery Residents

Author:Jim Morrison

“I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.”

Sound Hours Car Miles Comedian Engines Harmonicas

Author:Steven Wright

“Well, will anybody deny now that the Government at Washington, as regards its own people, is the strongest government in the world at this hour? And for this simple reason, that it is based on the will, and the good will, of an instructed people.”

People World Wells Reason Government Hours Simple Regard Deny Strongest Good Will

Book:Speeches of John Bright, M.P., on the American Question

Source: Speeches of John Bright, M.P., on the American Question

“I like young actors because they're so unspoiled, not like some of those actors who are about half an hour into their fifteen minutes of fame by the time they get to me.”

Young Actors Hours Half Minutes Like You Fame Fifteen I Like You Young Actors

Author:John Hughes

“Blest leisure is our curse; like that of Cain, It, makes us wander, wander earth around, To fly that tyrant Thought. As Atlas groan'd The world beneath, we groan beneath an hour.”

World Earth Hours Wander Curse Tyrants Leisure Cain Atlas

Book:Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

Source: Night Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality

“Ah! what is human life? How, like the dial's tardy-moving shade, Day after day slides from us unperceiv'd! The cunning fugitive is swift by stealth; Too subtle is the movement to be seen; Yet soon the hour is up--and we are gone.”

Life Humans Moving Hours Gone Movement Human Life Subtle Shade Cunning Slides Fugitive Stealth

Book:The dramatic works of Edward Young

Source: The dramatic works of Edward Young

“The bell strikes One. We take no note of time But from its loss. To give it then a tongue Is wise in man. As if an angel spoke, I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departed hours.”

Ifs Men Giving Feels Time Sound Hours Loss Wise Heard Angel Notes Tongue Strikes Spokes Bells Solemn Departed

Book:Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes

Source: Night thoughts on life, death and immortality: With a memoir of the author, a critical view of his writings, and explanatory notes

“Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement; and if a story is told of more than common interest, ennui is sure to have its joy in adding embellishments. If hours did not hang heavy, what would become of scandal?”

Ifs Enough Character Stories Joy Interest Hours Common Depends Truth Is Exciting Heavy Neighbor Scandal Amusement Ennui Common Interests Embellishment

Book:Literary and historical miscellanies

Source: Literary and historical miscellanies

“Sublime tobacco! which from east to west, Cheers the tar's labour or the Turkman's rest; Which on the Moslem's ottoman divides His hours, and rivals opium and his brides; Magnificent in Stamboul, but less grand, Though not less loved, in Wapping or the Strand: Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe, When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe; Like other charmers wooing the caress, More dazzlingly when daring in full dress; Yet thy true lovers more admire by far Thy naked beauties Give me a cigar!”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)

“Gold that buys health can never be ill spent, Nor hours laid out in harmless merriment.”

Hours Health Gold Ill Merriment

Book:The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes

Source: The Works of John Webster: With Some Account of the Author, and Notes

“I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.”

Thinking Actors Hours Four Eight Dinner Movie Bob Making Love Begging Dinner And A Movie

Author:Sting

“If I'm not at my desk by 4 AM, I feel like I'm missing my most productive hours. In addition to starting early, I keep an antique hour glass on my desk and every hour break briefly to do pushups, sit-ups, and some quick stretches. I find this helps keep the blood (and ideas) flowing.”

Ifs Feels Ideas Helping Hours Break Blood Missing Starting Glasses Productive Desks Antiques Hour Glasses

Author:Dan Brown

“The power of psychedelics... is that they often reveal, in the span of a few hours, depths of awe and understanding that can otherwise elude us for a lifetime.”

Understanding Hours Lifetime Depth Awe Elude Elude Us

Book:Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Source: Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

“I got pulled over by a cop, and he said, 'do you know the speed limit here is 55 miles per hour?'. So I said, 'oh, that's OK, I'm not going that far.'”

Knows Said Humor Funny Hours Limits Speed Miles Do You Know Cop Speed Limits

Author:Steven Wright

“Everyone on my team is different in terms of how long before a workout they prefer to eat. I like to eat my big meal 4.5-5 hours before I play. I usually eat a carb either rice or pasta with tofu or chicken. Around 2 hours before I play to like to eat greek yogurt with a banana.”

Long Different Play Bigs Term Hours Team Greek Meals Chickens Workout Rice Bananas Pasta Yogurt Carbs Tofu Greek Yogurt

Author:Kim Smith

“I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.”

Writing Two Turns Hours Copies Print

Author:Stephen King

“I do believe in reading signs if they're really obvious to you. Things happen. Someone will say something to you today in the morning and then later on that day someone will mention the same thing and then the next day someone will mention it again. There's a reason why three people have said something within twenty four hours.”

People Ifs Believe Said Reason Happens Today Three Reading Next Hours Morning Four Twenties Obvious Things Happen Reason Why Next Day

Author:Eric Bana

“My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.”

Trying Father Hours Talking Telepathy Idolized

Author:Patti Smith

“You're not a rock 'n' roll person four hours a day or even when you're on stage. It's become the rhythm of your whole life.”

Persons Whole Hours Four Rocks Stage Whole Life Rhythm Rock N Roll

Author:Patti Smith

“Nobody wants to know what I'm doing 24 hours a day, they'd be painfully bored, trust me. At the same time, if I'm doing something interesting or funny, I like being able to share that with my fans.”

Ifs Knows Want Able Hours Interesting Share Fans Bored Trust Me Something Interesting

Author:Josh Duhamel

“When you spend many hours a week working with the same people - I mean television operates on really amazing hours and the gift of that is the trust that you feel and the intimacy that you feel with the people who you're working with.”

People Feels Mean Hours Week Television Intimacy Really Amazing

Author:Holly Hunter

“I have read countless comics books while listening to hip hop, and as a young one, I wasted countless hours practicing nunchuks to Schoolly D's "Saturday Night." I would give anything for a video of that.”

Giving Book Young Night Hours Listening Hip Hop Video Hips Hops Saturday Saturday Night Young Ones

Author:Axel Alonso

“With The Reader, I'd just be shattered at the end of every day really. I wouldn't really want to talk. We kept saying, because we were in Berlin: "If we get back at a decent hour, let's go and have a glass of wine." We'd always think it would be a great idea, but then get to the end of the day and then go [acts drowsy and blabs]. It was very difficult for everybody.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ideas Ends Would Be Difficult Hours Reader Wine Glasses Decent The End Of The Day Get Back Berlin Great Idea Shattered Wine Glass Drowsy

Author:Kate Winslet

“It's unusual to spend even three full hours away from my newborn baby, it's like a piece of my body is back in the hotel room, and it does feel strange. But I love my work, though, it's not just a job for me, punching in my time card. I've always loved what I do, it's what makes me happy and I figure if I'm happy I'll be a good Mum too.”

Ifs Feels Doe Body Jobs Three Hours Rooms Pieces Figures Strange Baby Cards My Time Hotel Unusual Mum Make Me Happy Newborn Hotel Rooms Punching Newborn Baby

Author:Naomi Watts

“'Particularly' is particularly difficult because the 'L' and the 'R' are totally different, like totally different letters. I would spend hours in front of the mirror with my dialect coach to observe my tongue. You don't think, when you speak, about all the things that happen in your jaw and your mouth, how everything reacts, so you have to watch all those things and realise we have a totally different use of our tongue and jaws.”

Thinking Different Use Happens Speak Difficult Hours Watches Fronts Mouths Letters Mirrors Tongue Coaches Realising Dialect Dialect Coach

Author:Marion Cotillard

“A really large percentage of kids from Duke go to work on Wall Street, and they make a lot of money, but they're almost slaves to their jobs, working crazy hours. Their job totally dominates their lives, and most of them aren't happy. So many of my friends are going down that path. I even thought about it for a second, like "Should I be doing that?" But I just pursued my dreams instead, and I always tell people to do that. Now I make more money than they do, and I'm doing what I love.”

People Should Dream Kids Jobs Hours Path Crazy Streets Wall My Friends Slave More Money Lots Of Money Should I Percentages Pursued Dukes

Author:Mike Posner

“All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?”

Thinking World Want Kids Age Today School Grows Can Do Hours Growing Up Computer Birthday 60th Birthday Curfew

Author:James Hillman

“We always feel there are 3 parts to the song. The most important part is the reason it should exist. Our process usually consists of me sitting at the piano & Bob hovering over it. We throw ideas out...I start to play something...he'll hum something to make it better. He'll throw a line to me, I'll twist it to make it better and we scramble around like that for sometimes hours and days, 'til we both agree we've got something to show! That's how it works!”

Feels Should Important Ideas Sometimes Reason Play Shows Song Process Hours Lines Sitting Agree Piano Over It Bob Twists Hovering

Author:Richard Sherman

“I was happy working for £6 an hour.”

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Author:Amy Childs

“I can't do what my mother did, which is tell me every single day of my life about her labor and how long it was and how it was 36 hours of hell .”

Long I Can Mother Hours Hell Labor

Author:Kristen Stewart

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