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"Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?"
"There are secret passages all around you if you know where to look for them."
"The mere passage of time makes us all exiles."
"If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right."
"You look older.” “Yes, well. The passage of time tends to do that to a person."
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"The passage of time will usually extract the venom of most things and render them harmless"
"The worse the passage the more welcome the port."
"The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita."
"Hundreds of passages point to a time of judgment for every person who has ever lived-none will escape. If you took all the references to judgment out of the Bible, you would have little Bible left."
"The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century."
"That was excellently observed’, say I, when I read a passage in an author, where his opinion agrees with mine. When we differ, there I pronounce him to be mistaken."
"I am convinced that if the virtuosi could once find out a world in the moon, with a passage to it, our women would wear nothing but what directly came from thence."
