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"There is a way to again be in real time with the universe, but it is not through force, imagination or manipulation. It is by finding your true Self. When you do, you will not need to manipulate life, it will simply flow."
"The busy have no time for tears."
"We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die."
"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."
"Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects."
"He who influences the thought of his times influences the times that follow."
"It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind."
"As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."
"When a great man has some one object in view to be achieved in a given time, it may be absolutely necessary for him to walk out of all the common roads."
"Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both."
"Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long."
"Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes."
"The habit of looking to the future and thinking that the whole meaning of the present lies in what it will bring forth is a pernicious one. There can be no value in the whole unless there is value in the parts."
"What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike."
"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."
"Time is that in which all things pass away."
"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it."
"Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?"
"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."
"Time is what death needs to grow people in."
