"There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!"
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"... [ellipsis in source] it is true that the world was made in six days, but it was by God, to whose power the infirmity of men isnot to be compared."
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"The greatest voice of all time."
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"In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time."
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"I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time."
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"The sun proceeds unmoved To measure off another day For an approving God."
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"Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has been; In its unfading flowers I hear the bright bee hum; Prithee, my brother, Into my garden come!"
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"Cold inthe earthand the deepsnow piled abovethee, Far, far, removed, cold in the dreary grave! Have I forgot, my only Love, to love thee, Severed at last byTime's all-serving wave?"
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"The only thing that can spoil a day is people and if you can keep from making engagements, every day has no limits."
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"Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it."
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"We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it."
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"Time will discover everything to posterity; it is a babbler, and speaks even when no question is put."
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"Know we how many tomorrows the gods intend for our todays."
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"Presently he rose and approached the case before which she stood. Its glass shelves were crowded with small broken objects —hardly recognisable domestic utensils, ornaments and personal trifles — made of glass, of clay, of discoloured bronze and other time-blurred substances. 'It seems cruel,' she said, 'that after a while nothing matters... any more than these little things, that used to be necessary and important to forgotten people, and now have to be guessed at under a magnifying glass and labeled: "Use unknown".'"
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"For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."
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"You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it"
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"Every time you opt in to kindness Make one connection, used to divide us It echoes all over the world"
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"While Time, The endless idiot, runs screaming round the world."
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"Nature is more powerful than education; time will develop everything."
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"Here's to the man who rode the race, who took the time, who kept the time, and who did the trick."
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