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  • To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: Atimeto be born, and atimeto die; atimetoplant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; Atimetoweep, and atimeto laugh; atimetomourn, and a time to dance: A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

    -Bible (Old Testament)
    Ecclesiastes 3:1^8.

  • Get up, get up for shame, the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn.

    - Robert Herrick
      'Corinna's Going a Maying'.

  • There are those who prefer to get away inwardly, some with the help of a powerful imagination and an ability to abstract themselves from their surroundings†some with the help of opium or alcohol† I prefer shifting my whole body to shifting my brain, and going round the world to letting my head go round.

    - Alexander Ivanovich Herzen
    ^7  Byloe i dumy (My Past and Thoughts, translated by Constance Garnett,1924).

  • Mine is one of the jobs that, if you want it, you will never get itand if you're seen to want it you will certainly never get it.

    - (Bruce) Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill
      In The House Magazine, Jan.

Webster's New World Dictionary of Quotations Copyright © 2010 by Chambers Harrap Publishers Ltd. All rights reserved. Published by Wiley, Hoboken, NJ. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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