"Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind."
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"There will be time to murder and create."
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"He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life."
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"That passed the time. It would have passed in any case. Yes, but not so rapidly."
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"Every time you wink the stars move."
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"Who hears me, who understands me, becomes mine, a possession for all time."
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"Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters."
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"These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger."
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"If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things."
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"At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest."
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"Catch, then, oh! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short summer-man a flower; He dies-alas! how soon he dies!"
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"The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
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"In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream."
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"The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive."
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"My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me."
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"The first time that she spread her legs for him it had been like opening her jaws for the dentist."
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"In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time."
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"It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence."
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"In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand, which has been carried to such a perfection that a writer can keep pace with the most rapid speaker. But the inventing of such things is drudgery for the lowest slaves; philosophy lies deeper. It is not her office to teach men how to use their hands. The object of her lessons is to form the soul."
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"Nothing is ours except time."
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