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A good fisherman can secure many regenerative hours in winter, polishing up the rods and reels.

Herbert Hoover (1946). “Addresses Upon the Road: World War II, 1941-1945”

The whole of the day should not be daytime; there should be one hour, if not more, which the day did not bring forth.

Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.67, Xist Publishing

The present hour is always wealthiest when it is poorer than the future ones, as that is the pleasantest site which affords the pleasantest prospect.

Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1651, Delphi Classics

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.70, 谷月社

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 89), 1895.

And where Nyarlathotep went, rest vanished, for the small hours were rent with the screams of nightmare.

H. P. Lovecraft (2011). “H. P. Lovecraft Fiction Collection”, p.358, Boris Lariushin

Something like fear chilled me as I sat there in the small hours alone-I say alone, for one who sits by a sleeper is indeed alone; perhaps more alone than he can realise.

H. P. Lovecraft (2016). “H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ The Ultimate Horror Collection: 60 Occult & Supernatural Mysteries in One Volume: The Greatest Spine-Chilling and Blood-Curdling Stories of Terror & Macabre: The Call of Cthulhu, The White Ship, The Dunwich Horror, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Whisperer in Darknessäó_”, p.318, e-artnow

It takes me probably about four hours to get into the groove [with making music]. And it's really important for me to not break the groove.

"Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed". Interview with Angus Finlayson, thequietus.com. May 25, 2012.

Happiness is a critical factor for work, and work is a critical factor for happiness. In one of those life-isn’t-fair results, it turns out that the happy out-perform the less happy.

"Balanced Life — Want To Be Happy at Work? Dozens of Tips, Plus a Few Quizzes, To Consider" by Gretchen Rubin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 19, 2010.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

George Gissing (1962). “George Gissing's Commonplace Book: A Manuscript in the Berg Collection of the New York Public Library”

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1610, e-artnow

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

Interview with Marlise Simons, archive.nytimes.com. December 5, 1982.