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Quote by Lord Byron
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep,

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning — how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. – Lord Byron

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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. – Lord Byron

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Then stirs the feeling infinite, so felt In solitude, where we are least alone. – Lord Byron

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Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. – Lord Byron

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If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart. – Edmund Wilson

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Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses? – David Brin

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Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. Waste not the smallest time in imbecile infirmity, for well thou knowest that seconds form eternity. – E. Knight

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The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. – Author unknown, sometimes attributed to W.M. Lewis

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My songs are just little letters to me. – Ani Difranco

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Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers – a living prismatic gem…. it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description. – W.H. Hudson, Green Mansions

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