"Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience."
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"The state exists for man, not man for the state. The same may be said of science. These are old phrases, coined by people who saw in human individuality the highest human value. I would hesitate to repeat them, were it not for the ever recurring danger that they may be forgotten, especially in these days of organization and stereotypes."
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"I was so drunk the whole time that I took bottles for girls and girls for bottles."
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"Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."
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"I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life."
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"Present-moment living, getting in touch with your now, is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arrives."
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"I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear."
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"O, call back yesterday, bid time return"
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"Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend."
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"The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, Time, Will one day end it."
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"The whirligig of time brings in his revenges."
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"The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!"
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"Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?"
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"My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."
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"Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred."
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"We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage."
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"Well, we think that time "passes," flows past us, but what if it is we who move forward, from past to future, always discovering the new? It would be a little like reading a book, you see. The book is all there, all at once, between its covers. But if you want to read the story and understand it, you must begin with the first page, and go forward, always in order. So the universe would be a very great book, and we would be very small readers."
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"Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you."
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"Yeats was the greatest poet of our times . . . certainly the greatest in this language, and so far as I am able to judge, in any language."
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"Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more."
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