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The Fleet

«Every day has been so short, every hour so fleeting, every minute so filled with the life I love that time for me has fled on too swift a wing.»
Author: Aga Khan III | About: Day | Keywords: filled, fled, flees, fleeting, fleets, swift, swiftest, The Fleet, wing
«Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain.»
«So, often in the courseOf life's few fleeting years,A single pleasure costsThe soul a thousand tears.»
«To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.»
«West of these out to seas colder than the Hebrides I must go, / Where the fleet of stars is anchored and the young star-captains glow.»
«Sensual pleasures have the fleeting brilliance of a comet; a happy marriage has the tranquility of a lovely sunset.»
«All in the Downs the fleet was moored, / The streamers waving in the wind, / When black-eyed Susan came aboard.»
«Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou Are half a life asunder, Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale»
«Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.»
«The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.»