"Time is, after all, the greatest of poets; and the sons of Memory stand a better chance of being the heirs of Fame."
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"Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."
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"My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously."
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"Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing. Yet the timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness, And knows that 'yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream."
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"The day is of infinite length for him who knows how to appreciate and use it."
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"We must not take the faults of our youth with us into old age, for age brings along its own defects."
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"Admit that the press transferred the pontificate of Rome to Henry VIII-Admit that the press demolished in some sort the feudal system, and set the serfs and villains free; admit that the press demolished the monasteries, nunneries, and religious houses; into whose hands did all these alienated baronies, monasteries, and religious houses and lands fall? Into the hands of the democracy? Into the hands of serfs and villains? Serfs and villains were the only real democracy in those time. No. They fell into the hands of other aristocrats. . . ."
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"If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been."
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"Eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period."
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"Time, which despoils castles, enriches verses."
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"Space is to place as eternity is to time."
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"Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom."
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"Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before?"
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"As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity."
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"Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face."
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"Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time."
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"We must use time creatively."
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"He saw all these forms and faces in a thousand relationships become newly born. Each one was mortal, a passionate, painful example of all that is transitory. Yet none of them died, they only changed, were always reborn, continually had a new face: only time stood between one face and another."
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"Nothing has happened in the past; it happened in the Now. Nothing will ever happen in the future; it will happen in the Now."
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"Why does the mind habitually deny or resist the Now? Because it cannot function and remain in control without time, which is past and future, so it perceives the timeless Now as threatening. Time and mind are in fact inseparable."
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