Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.
Henry David ThoreauRead
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Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then withdrawn, and the curtain falls. And then the sun goes down, and long the afterglow gives light.
I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.
Time and the hour run through the roughest day.
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
I am saying that I was able to mold those hours around the needs of my family, and that matters. And I really encourage other people at Facebook to mold hours around themselves.
Several hours or several years make no difference once you have lost eternity.
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
This at least should be a rule through the letter-writing world: that no angry letter be posted till four-and-twenty hours will have elapsed since it was written.
To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.
I've had the joy of spending thousands of hours under the sea. I wish I could take people along to see what I see, and to know what I know.
In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair,_x000D_ Will you still care? Will you be there?_x000D_ In my trials and my tribulations,_x000D_ Through our doubts and frustrations,_x000D_ In my violence and my turbulence,_x000D_ Through my fear and my confessions,_x000D_ And my anguish and my pain,_x000D_ Through my joy and my sorrow,_x000D_ In the promise of another tomorrow,_x000D_ I'll never let you part,_x000D_ For you're always in my heart.
Watch a man at play for an hour and you can learn more about him than in talking to him for a year.
Always strive to make the next hour better than this one.
The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.
Take an hour every day at dawn and give it to your Self. Meet your Self there, in the holy moment. Then go about your day. You will be a different person.
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
For 40 hours a week competition is awfully stiff but after that there's very little competition .
A minute of thought is greater than an hour of talk.
I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'.
We are on a journey through the inward space of the heart, a journey not measured by the hours of our watch or the days of the calendar; for it is a journey out of time into eternity.
A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures.
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