"God is the only being who has time enough; but a prudent man, who knows how to seize occasion, can commonly make a shift to find as much as he needs."
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"In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?""
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"Youcanfooltoomanyofthepeopletoomuchofthetime. See Lincoln 510:35."
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"Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen."
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"Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry."
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"All things flow, nothing abides."
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"Time is a blooming field: nature is ever teeming with life: and all is seed, and all is fruit."
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"On all the walls, wherever walls exist, I will inscribe this eternal indictment of Christianity--I have letters to make even blindmen see.... I call Christianity the single great curse, the single great innermost depravity, the single great instinct of revenge, for which no means is poisonous, secretive, subterranean, small enough--I call it mankind's single immortal blemish.... And we reckon time from the dies nefastus with which this calamity arose--following Christianity's first day!--Why not following its last day, instead?--Following today?--Transvaluation of all values!"
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"Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it."
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"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times."
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"Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime."
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"Doch zittre vor der langsamen, Der stillen Macht der Zeit. Yet tremble at the slow, silent power of time."
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"You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable. You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons. Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing."
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"And is not time even as love is, undivided and paceless? But if in you thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons, And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing."
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"A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on."
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"But it warn't no time to be sentimentering."
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"How slow and still the time did drag along."
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"One sits down first; one thinks afterwards."
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"We lose all that time which we might employ better."
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"Time has no dominion over love. Love is the one thing that transcends time. (Bones)"
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