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Letter "S" » swift
«Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try - A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.»
«The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.»
«The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet»
«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
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Time
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«The race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. (Ecclesiastes 9:11)»
«Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, the chief glory of man.»
«The water of the fountain ran, the swift river ran, the day ran into evening, so much life in the city ran into death according to rule, time and tide waited for no man, the rats were sleeping close together in their dark holes again, the Fancy Ball was lighted up at supper, all things ran their course.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings»
«True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings»
«Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow»