"Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time."
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"Time isn't precious at all, because it is an illusion."
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"Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is."
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"It is difficult to walk at one and the same time many paths of life."
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"The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose."
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"Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old."
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"It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious."
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"Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens."
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"Nature, like us is sometimes caught without her diadem."
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"My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will changeit,I'mwellaware, aswinterchangesthetrees. My Love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneatha source of little visible delight but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff."
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"From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."
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"I was so full of sleep at the time that I left the true way."
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"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."
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"The services in wartime are fit only for desperadoes, but in peace are only fit for fools."
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"A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost."
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"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity."
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"Space and time are "sensed" not seen. They are created in consciousness which is spaceless and timeless."
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"A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they arent still there, hes no longer a political leader."
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"The French have no such expression as 'killing time.' In their more philosophical vocabulary the term is 'passing time,' which means savoring all moments of it each to his individual enjoyment. While we battle with time, they relax with tempo."
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"Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time."
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