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«We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth?s music.»
Author: David Brower | Keywords: anew, pause
«This benefit of seeing... can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image... the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.»
«The liver, that great maroon snail: No wave of emotion sweeps it. Neither music nor mathematics gives it pause in its appointed tasks.»
«Twilight: A time of pause when nature changes her guard. All living things would fade and die from too much light or too much dark, if twilight were not.»
«The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.»
«We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?»
Author: Lee Iacocca | Keywords: pause
«The sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.»
Author: Lord Byron | About: Heart, Love, Soul | Keywords: breast, breathe, pause, sheath, sword, The Sword, wears
«The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.»
«The pause-that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence, which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it»
«The pipe, with solemn interposing puff,Makes half a sentence at a time enough;The dozing sages drop the drowsy strain,Then pause, and puff -- and speak, and pause again.»

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