Only when the voice of duty is silent, or when it has already spoken, may we allowably think of the consequences of a particular action.
Augustus HareAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: english
- Born: March 13, 1834
- Died: January 22, 1903
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There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept all night and those who are going to work. It was for Sabina as if two races of men and women lived on earth, the night people and the day people, never meeting face to face except at this moment.
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I have tried imagining that the single peacock I see before me is the only one I have, but then one comes to join him, another flies off the roof, four or five crash out of the crepe-myrtle hedge; from the pond one screams and from the barn I hear the dairyman denouncing another that has got into the cow-feed. My kin are given to such phrases as, 'Let's face it.
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