Oft have I mused, but now at length I find, Why those that die, men say they do depart.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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All that the hand of man can uprear, is either overturned by the hand of man, or at length by standing and continuing consumed: as if there were a secret opposition in Fate (the unevitable decree of the Eternal) to control our industry, and countercheck all our devices and proposing. Possessions are not enduring, children lose their names. . . .
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Safety from external danger is the most powerful director of national conduct. Even the ardent love of liberty will after a time, give way to its dictates. The violent destruction of life and property incident to war, the continual effort and alarm attendant on a state of continual danger, will compel nations the most attached to liberty to resort for repose and security to institutions which have a tendency to destroy their civil and political rights. To be more safe, they at length become willing to run the risk of being less free.
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At length I heard a ragged noise and mirth Of thieves and murderers: there I him espied...
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The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.
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Nor had I erred in my calculations—nor had I endured in vain. I at length felt that I was free.
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There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without cessation; and everyone must reach the point at length of absolute prostration.
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The man who, from the beginning of his life, has been bathed at length in the soft atmosphere of a woman, in the smell of her hands, of her bo...
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Hereabouts our Indian told us at length the story of their contention with the priest respecting schools. He thought a great deal of education...
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Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be painted, observed to a few members near him, that painters had found it difficult to distinguish in their art, a rising, from a setting, sun. I have, said he, often and often, in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the President, without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting; but now at length, I have the happiness to know, that it is a rising, and not a setting sun.
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He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and a third time till at length it becomes habitual.
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Science conducts us, step by step, through the whole range of creation, until we arrive, at length, at God.
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Romans 1:10:
In my prayers at all times; and I pray that now at last by God's will the way may be opened for me to come to you.
(NIV)
I keep pleading that somehow by God's will I may now at last prosper and come to you.
(AMP)
Making request, if by any means now at length I might have a prosperous journey by the will of God to come unto you.
(KJV)
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Just as there is a lower carelessness which means death to the soul, so there is a higher carelessness which is the supreme gift of religion. We must all at length rest back upon God.
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It was inspiriting to hear the regular dip of the paddles, as if they were our fins or flippers, and to realize that we were at length fairly ...
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It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
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It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them.
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It is better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.
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At length to hospital This man was limited,...
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When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions.
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Our delight in any particular study, art, or science rises and improves in proportion to the application which we bestow upon it. Thus, what was at first an exercise becomes at length an entertainment.
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