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Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  • For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

  • I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.

  • The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

  • The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

  • Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.

  • A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.

  • It's unfortunate biologically we have to sleep.

  • The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.

  • Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

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