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A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
(Hesiod (c. 8th century B.C.), Greek didactic poet. Works and Days, 825.)
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Criticism sometimes is really praise, and praise sometimes slander.
(François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680), French writer, moralist. repr. F.A. Stokes Co., New York (c. 1930). Moral Maxims and Reflections, no. 149 (1665-1678), trans. London (1706).)
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Sometimes she sank, sometimes she swam,
Until she cam to the miller's dam.
(Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 21-22). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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He who hesitates is sometimes saved.
(James Thurber (1894-1961), U.S. humorist, illustrator. "The Glass in the Field," The Thurber Carnival (1945).)
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Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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Nature, like man, sometimes weeps from gladness.
(Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881), British statesman, author. Coningsby, bk. 7, ch. 5 (1844).)
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We all go a little mad sometimes.
(Joseph Stefano, U.S. screenwriter, and Alfred Hitchcock. Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), in Psycho (1960).)
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Sometimes "Yes" is rhetoric enough.
(Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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Always the seer is a sayer. Somehow his dream is told: somehow he publishes it with solemn joy: sometimes with pencil on canvas: sometimes with chisel on stone; sometimes in towers and aisles of granite, his soul's worship is builded; sometimes in anthems of indefinite music; but clearest and most permanent, in words.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Address, July 15, 1838, delivered before the senior class in Divinity College, Cambridge. "The Divinity School Address," repr. in The Portable Emerson, ed. Carl Bode (1946, repr. 1981).)
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Sometimes they are little cats mewing and scratching
at the door, sometimes they are her grandmother's voice,
and sometimes they are gigantic men of light whispering
to her to get up, to get up, to get up.
(Joy Harjo (b. 1951), U.S. poet. The Woman Hanging from the Thirteenth Floor Windo (l. 35-38). . .
Harper's Anthology of 20th Century Native American Poetry. Duane Niatum, ed. (1988) Harper & Row.)
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