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"This Is the Time to Be Slow" || by John O’Donohue
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07/02/26 at 03:10AM
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Poetry
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer. His most famous works are Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.
This is the time to be slow
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with beginning.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ (1803 –1882) American poet, philosopher, essayist and abolitionist.
Ralph Waldo Emerson ~ (1803 –1882) American poet, philosopher, essayist and abolitionist.His first two collections of "Essays" First Series (1841) and Second Series (1844), represent the core of his thinking. They include "Self-Reliance", "The Over-Soul", "Circles", "The Poet", "Experience" and "Nature". His work has greatly influenced the thinkers, writers and poets that followed him. , He wrote: "In all my lectures, I have taught one doctrine, namely, the infinitude of the private man" More
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Oliver Cromwell (1599 -1658) English military and political leader.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844 -1900) German philosopher, cultural critic, composer, poet, philologist, and a Latin and Greek scholar. Biography
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Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 - April 15, 1865)
Richard Bach - American writer (born June 23, 1936) - He has written numerous flight-related works of fiction and non-fiction. His work include Jonathan Livingston Seagull (1970) and Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, both of which were among the best sellers in the 1970's. More