“Being prepared means much, being able to wait means more, but to make use of the right moment means everything”
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“Being prepared means much, being able to wait means more, but to make use of the right moment means everything”
“Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual”
“The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ”
“It is only in the act of nursing that a woman realizes her motherhood in visible and tangible fashion; it is a joy of every moment”
“Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity”
“Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us; footprints on the sands of time.”
“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment”
“Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!”
“You say you have thousands of my days; but I have thousands of moments, in which I can be merry and happy ”
“The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day”
“Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied”
“The moment eternal - just that and no more - when ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core while cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!”
“The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler”
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself”
“I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment”
“It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun”
“The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family”