"What is past is prologue."
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"... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which."
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"Much rain wears the marble."
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"Time's glory is to command contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light."
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"We should hold day with the Antipodes, If you would walk in absence of the sun."
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"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me."
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"There's a time for all things."
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"Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth."
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"Youth is like spring, an over praised season more remarkable for biting winds than genial breezes. Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits."
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"The surest poison is time."
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"There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series."
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"If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?"
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"In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca."
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"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth."
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"Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us."
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"Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men."
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"That great mystery of TIME, were there no other; the illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean tide, on which we and all the Universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very literally a miracle; a thing to strike us dumb,-for we have no word to speak about it."
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"Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minute-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time."
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"It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves."
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"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
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