"Time cleanses what it touches over time."
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"Time is the image of eternity."
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"All thinking, knowing, perception, space-time, occur in consciousness. You are a non-local consciousness. The world is in you."
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"To have passion, to have a dream, to have a purpose in life. And there are three components to that purpose, one is to find out who you really are, to discover God, the second is to serve other human beings, because we are here to do that and the third is to express your unique talents and when you are expressing your unique talents you lose track of time."
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"When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."
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"Truth has not special time of its own. Its hour is now - always and, indeed then most truly, when it seems unsuitable to actual circumstances."
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"I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back."
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"A good style must have an air of novelty, at the same time concealing its art."
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"And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun."
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"And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags.""
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"Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st decrees The inaudible and noiseless foot of Time Steals ere we can effect them."
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"Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal."
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"The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long."
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"She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn."
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"That kill the bloom before its time, And blanch, without the owner's crime, The most resplendent hair."
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"On a fair prospect some have looked, And felt, as I have heard them say, As if the moving time had been A thing as steadfast as the scene On which they gazed themselves away."
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"The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we’re spirits—not animals…. There’s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
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"O foolish writer. Now moves. Even in storytime, dreamtime, once-upon-a-time, now isn't then."
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"A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter."
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"Life is like walking you take one step at a time."
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