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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.


Aphra Behn

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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
APHRA BEHN All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the tomb of Aphra Behn, for it was she who earned ...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
APHRA BEHN A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. A moment's thinking is an hour in words.
THOMAS HOOD Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of ...
THOMAS OSBERT MORDAUNT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour o...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! To all the sensual world proclaim. One crowded hour of glor...
WALTER SCOTT We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man d...
KARL MARX How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that...
EMILY OSTER Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour ...
SIR WALTER SCOTT The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It...
JEFF BUCKLEY The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the...
ANUJ SOMANY Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is n...
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VIKTOR E. FRANKL When I do an hour-and-a-half show, if I don't improvise 20 minutes worth of new material each ni...
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BEA ARTHUR An hour of practice is worth five hours of foot-dragging.
PANCHO SEGURA Allow yourself to enjoy each happy moment in your life.
STEVE MARABOLI In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endl...
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MAITHA ALSHAMSI A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.
JOSEPH ADDISON A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage
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DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I hate to tell you this, but there's an entire subset of people out there who think of me as qui...
CAMPBELL SCOTT A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happines...
SUZE ORMAN Seeing someone happy on set is just a very small slice of the reality of an actor's life.
KATHERINE WATERSTON Every parent knows this moment in a child's age when he or she needs your attention in a very sp...
NICOLE ARI PARKER If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don't want to fight another guy whose sword is dull....
KENDRICK LAMAR A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
SOURCE UNKNOWN A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success
WILLIS REED A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
UNKNOWN The excitement of life is in every moment as each moment is a fresh and new experience.
WILIAM CONSTANTINE Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
MUHAMMAD ALI But the lover's power is the poet's power. He can make love from all the common strings with...
AMELIA BARR In the industrial age and in analog clocks, a minute is some portion of an hour which is some portio...
DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet.
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of je...
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Variety is the soul of pleasure.
APHRA BEHN There is no sinner like a young saint.
APHRA BEHN Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
APHRA BEHN Patience is a flatterer, sir and an ass, sir
APHRA BEHN No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Oh, what a dear ravishing thing is the beginning of an Amour!
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend an...
APHRA BEHN All I ask, is the privilege for my masculine part the poet in me. . . . If I must not, because of my...
APHRA BEHN Here lies a Proof that Wit can never be
Defence enough against Mortality
APHRA BEHN He that knew all that learning ever writ, Knew only this - that he knew nothing yet
APHRA BEHN Come away; poverty's catching
APHRA BEHN That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and...
APHRA BEHN Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
JEANNE MOREAU If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. Th...
KATE THOMPSON There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
GEORGE HERBERT There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it
GEORGE HERBERT These are moments of love and ecstasy. Deeply moving moments when we will fly! Fly together in the a...
AVIJEET DAS A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. N...
HONORE DE BALZAC Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright mornin...
ERICH FROMM We have a way of spending an hour on 30 seconds worth of ... footage.
BRANDON HUNT Construction is an important front for solidifying the foundations of a thriving country and creatin...
KIM JONG-UN Maxims of Ptahhotep spoke a lot of sense; 'Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer ...
KARL WIGGINS My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Ma...
KATE CHRISTENSEN One human life is worth more than all the treasures of the earth.
SETH ADAM SMITH Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover ...
EDNA FERBER It's hard to say no to your kid. It's hard for them to stomp off and not be happy with you f...
MARTINA MCBRIDE I have now reached the happy age of 23. No, happy is not quite the right word. At this particular mo...
EVA BRAUN The care of your body is one of the most important investments you can make. What good are expensive...
AVINA CELESTE Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS My motto in life is, 'If anything is worth doing, it's worth overdoing.'
DANNY BONADUCE What we're talking about is, can we make a difference in that moment. Maybe it's just a moment; mayb...
GARY MEX GLAZNER The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.
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SIDDHARTHA MUKHERJEE Each person's life is lived as a series of conversations.
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VICTOR FRANKL En inglés, Borogove’” I said. “But what if I don’t finish this painting in
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KARL MARX You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
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BILLY CHILDISH The energy of live theater is indescribable. You are just in the moment for an hour and a half.
ADRIANNE PALICKI Take every moment of life as it is and a happy person you shall always be.
IRENE GOODWILL Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g...
SETH ADAM SMITH Life is merely a series of moments and is in fact an unflinching serial killer, since it kills stead...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the w...
CORITA KENT I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young g...
CARINE ROITFELD The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a might...
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A beautiful wake-up is one of life's most perfectly happy times.
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APHRA BEHN Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret.
APHRA BEHN Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life
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