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"In theory one is aware that the earth revolves, but in practice one does not perceive it, the ground upon which one treads seems not to move, and one can live undisturbed. So it is with Time in one's life."
"Theoretically, we know that the world turns, but in fact we do not notice it, the earth on which we walk does not seem to move andwe live on in peace. This is how it is concerning Time in our lives. And to render its passing perceptible, novelists must... have their readers cross ten, twenty, thirty years in two minutes."
"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
"The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!"
"Repetition is the only form of permanence that Nature can achieve."
"I can prove at any time that my education tried to make another person out of me than the one I became. It is for the harm, therefore, that my educators could have done me in accordance with their intentions that I reproach them; I demand from their hands the person I now am, and since they cannot give him to me, I make of my reproach and laughter a drumbeat sounding in the world beyond."
"To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts."
"As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend."
"Time can be a greedy thing-sometimes it steals the details for itself."
"More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking."
"Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine"
"Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around."
"Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon to illustrate all shadows, as the sheaves in harvest, to fill all penuries, all occasions invite his mercies, and all times are his seasons."
"The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!"
"That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time."
"Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time."
"Time is the soul of this world."
"There was a time when time did not yet exist."
"Many foxes grow gray but few grow good."
"Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day."
