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«Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.»

Author: Henry Van Dyke (Essayist, Poet, Writer) | About: Time | Keywords: come short, eternity, fear, for short, grieve, grieving, long, rejoice, short, shorts, short I, slow, slowed, slowing, slows, swift, swiftest, those, time, too, Too Short, too slow, wait

«Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant?? I'm halfway through my fish burger and I realize, Oh my God....I could be eating a slow learner.»

Author: Lynda Montgomery | About: Food, Funny | Keywords: burger, eating, fish, fished, halfway, How to fish, learner, learners, Oh My, realize, restaurant, sea, seafood, sea a, slow, slowed, slowing, slows, The Restaurant

«Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.»

Author: May Sarton | Keywords: back, back down, circles, circling, down, forces, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, gardening, grace, help, instrument, in a circle, patience, sets, set back, slow, slowed, slowing, slows

«Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.»

Author: Aristotle (Philosopher, Physician, Scientist) | About: Friendship | Keywords: fruit, fruited, quick, ripened, ripening, ripens, slow, slowed, slowing, slows, wishing

«Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge»

Author: Friedrich Nietzsche (Critic, Philosopher, Scholar) | Keywords: essence, essences, in essence, knowledge, of the essence, slow, slowed, slowing, slowness, slows, suppose, supposes, those

«We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.»

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Poet) | Keywords: climb, climb on, cloudy, degrees, feet, have-not, in degree, more and more, on the wing, scale, scaled, scaling, slow, slowed, slowing, slows, soar, soared, summits, The Climb, to that degree, wings

«Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.»

Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta (Founder, Missionary) | Keywords: according, accords, ashamed, Do or Die, dying, get in touch, humble, humbler, humbles, humbling, in accord, loneliest, lonely, poor, received, slow, slowed, slowing, slows, the Graces, The Lonely, the poor, touch, touch on, touch up, unwanted

«He who is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.»

Author: Proverb | Keywords: anger, exalting, exalts, folly, hasty, has a, slow, slowing, slows, temper, understanding

«To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.»

Author: Winston Churchill (Author, Orator, Prime Minister) | Keywords: act, Act of, build, building up, build in, Day, day of the year, destroy, laborious, single, slow, slowed, slowing, slows, task, thoughtless, years

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