"I find nothing in fables more astonishing than my experience in every hour. One moment of a man's life is a fact so stupendous as to take the luster out of fiction."
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"Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work."
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"The truth, the hope of any time, must always be sought in minorities."
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"As long as we can keep our international relations in the realm of conference rather than open conflict, we are giving truth more time to vindicate itself. And what we ourselves need is more faith in the power of truth."
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"Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage"
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"Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment."
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"A man may write at any time, if he will set himself doggedly to it."
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"So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side."
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"And panting Time toil'd after him in vain."
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"Enlarge my life with multitude of days, In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays; Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know, That life protracted is protracted woe. Time hovers o'er, impatient to destroy, And shuts up all the passages of joy."
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"Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are."
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"The large shiny black forehead of the first whale was no more than two yards from us when it sank beneath the surface of the water, then we saw the huge blue-black bulk glide quietly under the raft right beneath our feet. It lay there for some time, dark and motionless, and we held our breath as we looked down on the gigantic curved back of a mammal a good deal longer than the raft."
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"Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes."
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"A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace."
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"There is a point, of course, where a man must take the isolated peak and break with all his associates for clear principle; but until that time comes he must work, if he would be of use, with men as they are. As long as the good in them overbalances the evil, let him work with them for the best that can be obtained."
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"The name Roosevelt has this legendary force in our country at this time."
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"Time has only a relative existence."
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"O Time! Time! how it brings forth and devours! And the roaring flood of existence rushes on forever similar, forever changing!"
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"Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future."
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"Moral self-infatuation has its own corruptions, after all. With time, almost every other principle of the magazine acquired an ironic echo, a sort of cackling aftermath."
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