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The Hours

«The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.»
«To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day withreverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a cleanmind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the UltimatePurpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on mylips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all thehours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joythat comes from work well done -- this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.»
«Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers»
«Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health.»
«Shape your heart to front the hour, but dream not that the hours will last.»
Author: Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Keywords: The Hours
«The hours of a wise man are lengthened by his ideas.»
«Take care in your minutes, and the hours will take care of themselves.»
«The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowded with fruition.»
«The gods do not deduct from man's alloted span the hours spent fishing»
«The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.»