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"It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder."
"God Himself chasteneth not with a rod but with time."
"The crutch of Time accomplishes more than the club of Hercules."
"Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality."
"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."
"Time, time, time, see what's become of me, While I looked around, For my possibilities; I was so hard to please"
"When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined."
"Each moment has its sickle, emulous Of Time's enormous scythe, whose ample sweep Strikes empires from the root."
"A woman's always younger than a man at equal years."
"Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished."
"Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, Make me a child again just for to-night!"
"What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?"
"Youth holds no society with grief."
"To read is to voyage through time."
"He who know most grieves most for wasted time."
"Though I sit down now, the time will come whenyou will hear me."
"There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations."
"An old young man, will be a young old man."
"One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not."
"I pray for no more youth To perish before its prime; That Revenge and iron-heated War May fade with all that has gone before Into the night of time."
