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"But our minds are bound to the yardstick of yesterday, today and tomorrow, and with that yardstick we try to inquire into the unknown, to measure that which is not measurable."
"Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see."
"The present moment is a powerful goddess."
"Time does not relinquish its rights, either over human beings or over mountains."
"Die Zeit ist selbst ein Element. Time is itself an element."
"The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology."
"I will not look upon the quickening sun, But straight her beauty to my sense shall run; The air shall note her soft, the fire most pure; Water suggest her clear, and the earth sure; Time shall not lose our passages."
"Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows, and through curtains, call on us? Must to thy motions lovers'seasons run? Saucy pedantic wretch, go chide Late schoolboys, and sour prentices, Go tell court-huntsmen that the King will ride, Call countryants to harvest offices; Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time."
"We celebrate the past to awaken the future."
"It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won."
"But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: "Stay, thou art so fair." And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future."
"He hath shook hands with time."
"Every man must some time or other be trusted to himself."
"Do not think it wasted time to submit yourselves to any influence which may bring upon you any noble feeling."
"The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time."
"It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest."
"It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge intime, toprotest againstchange, particularlychangefor the better."
"Put your trust in the living God and all will be right in time and eternity."
"No preacher is listened to but time, which gives us the same train and turn of thought that elder people have in vain tried to put into our heads before."
"Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there."
