"The secret anniversaries of the heart."
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"The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls."
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"In the dark, time feels different than when it is light."
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"When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."
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"Think with awe on the slow and quiet power of time."
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"Often times I have hated in self-defense; if I were stronger I would not have used such a weapon."
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"I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake."
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"The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes."
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"She went, however, and they sauntered about together many a half hour in Mr. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth."
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"Time is the only comforter for the loss of a mother."
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"One must choose between making a man or a citizen, for one cannot make both at the same time."
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"One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears."
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"Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children."
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"Tolerance comes of age. I see no fault committed that I myself could not have committed at some time or other."
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"My inheritance how lordly wide and fair; Time is my fair seed-field, to Time I'm heir."
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"How marvelous, wide and broad is my Inheritance! Time is my property, my estate is time."
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"Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day."
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"Doing time is like climbing a mountain wearing roller skates."
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"True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign."
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"It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours."
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