Charles Dickens Quotes, Men Quotes, Long Quotes

It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule.' 'It does not take a long time to strike a man with Lightning,' said Defarge. 'How long,' demanded madame, composedly, 'does it take to make and store the lightning? Tell me?

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The vixen I met at twilight on Route 5 south of Willoughby: long dead. She was an omen to me, surviving, herding her cubs in the silvery bend of the road in nineteen sixty-five.

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Tags : Adrienne Rich Quotes , Twilight Quotes , Long Quotes

English can be tricky because there are so many false cognates, but sometimes, as long the idea conveyed is not wrong, these false cognates can themselves offer synonyms or lead to a better alternative word or phrase in translation.

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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

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In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

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I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

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It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit

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In the long-run the workman may be as necessary to his master as his master is to him, but the necessity is not so immediate.

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The sentences in the book of providence are sometimes long, and you must read a great way before you understand their meaning.

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I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money.

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I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

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Tags : Maya Angelou Quotes , Long Quotes , Taught Quotes

Things refuse to be mismanaged for long.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Long Quotes

Ay me! sad hours seem long.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Long Quotes , Hours Quotes

Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and as long as we don't understand that eternal movement, our lives are bound to have very little meaning.

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The one who does not stray away from her/his nature will live long.

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I have long held the opinion that the amount of noise that anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity and therefore be regarded as a pretty fair measure of it.

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Long Quotes , Noise Quotes

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

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Great talents, by the rust of long disuse, Grow lethargic and shrink from what they were.

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Tags : Ovid Quotes , Long Quotes , Rust Quotes

He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Independent Quotes , Long Quotes

Long as there's a sun that sets, Primroses will have their glory; Long as there are violets, They will have a place in story: There's a flower that shall be mine, 'Tis the little Celandine.

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