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«Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.»
Author: Aga Khan III | About: Day | Keywords: filled, fled, flees, fleeting, fleets, swift, swiftest, The Fleet, wing
«Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.»
«So, often in the courseOf life's few fleeting years,A single pleasure costsThe soul a thousand tears.»
«To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.»
«Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.»
«Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale»
«Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean - roll! / Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain; / Man marks the earth with ruin - his control / Stops with the shore.»
«Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.»
«The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.»
«For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank.»