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I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.

Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

I ought to spend the best hours of the day in communion with God. It is my noblest and most fruitful employment, and is not to be thrust into any corner.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1874). “Memoir and Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee”

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

I went to lose a jolly, Hour on the trolley, And lost my heart instead...

"Song: The Trolley Song". Performed in the musical film "Meet Me in St. Louis" by Judy Garland, November 22, 1944.

We both believe, and disbelieve a hundred times an hour, which keeps believing nimble.

Emily Dickinson (1986). “Selected Letters”, p.279, Harvard University Press