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O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
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The wild mustard in Southern California is like that spoken of in the New Testament. . . . Its gold is as…
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There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.
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There cannot be found in the animal kingdom a bat, or any other creature, so blind in its own range of circumstance…
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Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride carries its…
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But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years…
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Who longest waits most surely wins.
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For April sobs while these are so glad April weeps while these are so gay,- Weeps like a tired child who had,…
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O bees, sweet bees!" I said; "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles Fly swiftly there and drain those honey…
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One of Dr. Johnson's ingredients of happiness was, "A little less time than you want." That means always to have so many…
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O May, sweet-voice one, going thus before, Forever June may pour her warm red wine Of life and passions,--sweeter days are thine!
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Gazing around, looking up at the lofty pinnacles above, which seemed to pierce the sky, looking down upon the world,-\-\it seemed the…
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As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a man.
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Change itself is what fascinates me. I am drawn, as a moth to the flame, by edge situations, by situations of metamorphosis.
— Annie Proulx
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The desire of the moth for the star, Of the night for the morrow, The devotion to something afar From the sphere…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.
— Sara Teasdale
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I like the 'Moth' podcast a lot. I listen to that.
— Gillian Jacobs
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The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
— Emile M. Cioran
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I detest my past, and anyone else's. I detest resignation, patience, professional heroism and obligatory beautiful feelings. I also detest the decorative…
— Rene Magritte
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Nature is full of by-ends. A moth feeds on a petal, in a moment the pollen caught on its breast will be…
— George Iles
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What a moth might see from birth to death if black were white and white were black,
— Stan Brakhage
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The [peppered-moth] experiments show the effects of predation on the survival of the dark and of the normal forms of the Peppered…
— L. Harrison Matthews
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Ambition is a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague, the engineer of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of…
— Thomas Brooks
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Remember Killer Moth, the most ingenuous rogue ever to defy the dynamic duo, Batman and Robin ?Perhaps you recall how the weird…
— Bob Kane
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