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To look back is to relax one's vigil. -- Bette Davis
It was one long, anxious, inexorable, eternal vigil. -- Frank James
I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'. -- Wayne Knight
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. -- Marc Chagall
Dont bring a candlelight vigil to a gunfight -- David Burge
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Learning to weep, learning to keep vigil, learning to wait for the dawn. Perhaps this is what it means to be human. -- Henri Nouwen
Keeping vigil over her are two monsters of very different breeds but monster just the same.Death on her left.Devil on her right. -- Karen Marie Moning
Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom. -- Jacques Derrida
As humourless a lump of dough as ever held a torchlight vigil outside the South African Embassy or stuck an AIDS awareness ribbon on an unwilling first-nighter. -- Stephen Fry
The wall is silence, the grass is sleep, Tall trees of peace their vigil keep, And the Fairy of Dreams with moth-wings furled. Plays soft on her flute to the drowsy world. -- Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
I have been at war from the beginning. I've never looked back before. I've never had the time and it has always seemed so dangerous. To look back is to relax one's vigil. -- Bette Davis
But I was too restless to watch long; I'm too Occidental for a long vigil. I could work at a problem for years, but to wait inactive for twenty-four hours - that's another matter. -- H. G. Wells

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