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The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure.


William Blake

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE The hours of folly are measur’d by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.
WILLIAM BLAKE More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now.
BRIAN ENO Our devotions are not measured by the clock, but time is of the essence. The ability to wait, and st...
E.M. BOUNDS Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes....
HARUKI MURAKAMI Every day, we are given 24 hours and as the clock ticks, the hours are diminishing till at 11pm, you...
SUNDAY ADELAJA It's a whole team of people working 24 hours around the clock to make me look like this.
CLAY AIKEN Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our kn...
CECELIA AHERN If you claim to be ahead of time, please check the clock. If the clock shows time, then either you a...
APURVA GAGLANI All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.
JAMES A. GARFIELD Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is...
JAY GRIFFITHS Yep, that's me. I know. I know. You're humbled I'm here, feel like throwing rose petals at my feet, ...
GENA SHOWALTER They looked at each other, baffled, in love and hate.
WILLIAM GOLDING I don't know who mentioned William Blake first, but Allen talked about his visions of Blake and I to...
MICHAEL MCCLURE No clock is more regular than the belly
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MITCH LAZAR We are reinventing the clock.
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AISHA TYLER That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
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ELLEN FRANK This is really a disorder characterized by massive disturbances in the body's clock and in all the t...
ELLEN FRANK I'm William, but you can call me Sexy. Everyone does.
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DAN O'DONNELL I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON DREAMS ARE THE BEST ALARM CLOCK
DHANESH DHAMEJA You can't turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again.
BONNIE PRUDDEN You can't turn back the clock but you can wind it up again
BONNIE PRUDDEN The answer of course, is that the clock isn't meant to measure earthly time, but the time of the sou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for societ...
JAY GRIFFITHS Life's Irony;The Clock provides humanity time & even though all numbers 1-12 are residing inside the...
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R.A.DELMONICO This is sort of nature's way of setting an alarm clock. (Growers) count the number of cold hours bef...
ROGER DUNCAN There is no alarm clock like embarassment.
MARYROSE WOOD It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
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CHARLES M. SCHULZ Our life is made up of time. Our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our kn...
CECELIA AHERN A story conducted by the time of a clock and calendars alone would be a story not of human beings bu...
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VIKRANT PARSAI If you can introduce indeterminacy and jitter in the timings either by variable clock periods or by ...
KEN WARREN You are racing your competitors, not the clock.
BILL RODGERS We will have the best clock ever flown in space. It will be as precise as one out of a million secon...
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ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
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WILLIAM BLAKE I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's.
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The...
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WILLIAM BLAKE Tiger! Tiger! burning bright / In the forests of the night, / What immortal hand or eye / Could fram...
WILLIAM BLAKE Enthusiastic Admiration is the first Principle of Knowledge and its last.
WILLIAM BLAKE For he hears the lambs innocent call.And he hears the ewes tender reply.He is watchful while they ar...
WILLIAM BLAKE Every tear from every eye / Becomes a babe in Eternity.
WILLIAM BLAKE Seek Love in the pity of others' woe,In the gentle relief of another's care,In the darkness of night...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow, too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind...
WILLIAM BLAKE Can I see another's woe, / And not be in sorrow too?
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