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"Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time."
"Better never than late."
"In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible."
"Life expects us to make a reasonable amount of progress in a reasonable amount of time. That's why they make those second grade chairs so small."
"There never was a time in our history when ignorance of current affairs could be so dangerous."
"Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret."
"Only when the clock stops does time come to life"
"This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it."
"Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year - and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!"
"If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm."
"A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctively upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken."
"All human power is a compound of time and patience."
"He comes to us as One unknown, without a name, as of old, by the lakeside, He came to those men who knew Him not. He speaks to us the same words: "Follow thou me!" and sets us to the tasks which He has to fulfill for our time. He commands. And to those who obey Him, whether they be wise or simple, He will reveal himself in the toils, the conflicts, the sufferings which they shall pass through in His fellowship, and, as an ineffable mystery, they shall learn in their own experience Who He is."
"The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind."
"I confess, I do not believe in time."
"Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."
"Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
"Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a sickness bred of the mystery of life. If one of the faces I pass daily on the streets disappears, I feel sad; yet they meant nothing to me, other than being a symbol of all life."
"To use Newton's words, our efforts up till this moment have but turned over a pebble or shell here and there on the beach, with only a forlorn hope that under one of them was the gem we were seeking. Now we have the sieve, the minds, the hands, the time, and, particularly, the dedication to find those gems-no matter in which favorite hiding place the children of distant worlds have placed them."
"Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men."
