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"Darkling I listen; and, for many a time I have been half in love with easeful Death, Called him soft names in many a muse' d rhyme, To take into the air my quiet breath; Now more than ever seems it rich to die, To cease upon the midnight with no pain, While thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy!"
"I'd had nearly four years of experience looking at these clocks, but their sluggishness never ceased to surprise. If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight to the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years."
"Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time."
"The content or time-clothing of any medium or culture is the preceding medium or culture."
"For truth itself does not have the privilege to be employed at any time and in every way; its use, noble as it is, has its circumscriptions and limits."
"Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent."
"Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous."
"Live as long as you please, you will strike nothing off the time you will have to spend dead."
"There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things."
"Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!"
"Time is a seedfield; in youth we sow it with causes; in after life we reap the harvest of effects."
"There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake."
"Think'st thou existence doth depend on time? It doth; but actions are our epochs."
