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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying th

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. – Jonathan Swift

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Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction. – Jonathan Swift

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Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room. – Jonathan Swift

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Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says, “I am coming.” – Virgil, Minor Poems, Copa

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though love be a day and life be nothing, it shall not stop kissing. – e.e. cummings

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If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? – Stephen Levine

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We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are — that is the fact. – Jean Paul Sartre, Situations, 1939

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Love the giver more than the gift. – Brigham Young

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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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Journalism — a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand. – Lord Northcliffe

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If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim. – Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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