“Longing hearts could only stand so much longing.”
“...A man can only stumble for so long before he either falls or stands up straight.”
“But truth is stubborn. Our nature, our secret hearts can only hide for so long.”
“a truth does not take too long to tell, only a fiction requires so much thought”
“There was a quote about "standing in a river too long or long enough" that I can't find now. Anyone remember? If so, what page?”
“Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life.”