"If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not."
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"For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable? And if it, on the other hand, destroys and absolutely puts an end to us, what can be preferable to having a deep sleep fall on us in the midst of the fatigues of life and, being thus overtaken, to sleep to eternity?"
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"The heart and the almanac never agree about time."
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"Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is."
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"Our planet's alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!"
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"Whenever you note the time on the clock, realize that it is now—right now—later than it has ever been."
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"Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand."
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"Time is, time was, but time shall be no more."
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"As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails."
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"Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now."
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"What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!"
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"As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiencesof the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die."
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"He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them."
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"Doesn't becoming imply time?"
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"The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active."
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"Time steals away without any inconvenience."
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"I have a vocabulary all my own. I "pass the time" when it is wet and disagreeable. When it is fine I do not wish to pass it; I ruminate it and hold on to it. We should hasten over the bad, and settle upon the good."
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"Someone will ask later, sometimes searching for a name, his own or someone's else's why I neglected his sadness or his love... But I didn't have enough time or ink for everyone. Or maybe it was the strain of the city, of time the cold heart of the clocks."
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"Leonardo's Mona Lisa sure would have lost out if he had spent only 2 of the 4 or 5 years he took to complete it. It is thinking about him and Ryder, among others, that partly makes me feel so awful to send away a 'half-baked' painting."
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"It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors."
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