He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
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The traveler that resolutely follows a rough and winding path will sooner reach the end of his journey than he that is always changing his direction, and wastes the hour of daylight in looking for smoother ground and shorter passages.
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Give me the clear blue sky above my head, and the green turf beneath my feet, a winding road before me, and a three hours' march to dinner - and then to thinking! It is hard if I cannot start some game on these lone heaths.
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With crayons the child draws a rigid house and a winding pathway. Then the child puts in a man with buttons like tears
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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'Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race.
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The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
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"'Weave the warp and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race.
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Listening to someone talk isn't at all like listening to their words played over on a machine. What you hear when you have a face before you is never what you hear when you have before you a winding tape.
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Mountains cannot be surmounted except by winding paths.
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If you want to be a leader with a large following, just obey the speed limit on a winding, two-lane road.
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Now Lady Maisry is gone home, Made him a winding sheet,...
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I was giving my all as the game was winding down.
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He is winding the watch of his wit by and by it will strike.
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