"He who lives in the present lives in eternity."
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"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
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"Let every man be master of his time."
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"To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
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"Those whom the gods love grow young."
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"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."
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"In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place."
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"one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax."
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"By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future."
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"Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory."
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"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."
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"Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time."
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"Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again."
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"Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave."
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"Life is not just the passing of time. Life is the collection of experiences and their intensity."
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"You talk of the scythe of Time, and the tooth of Time: I tell you, Time is scytheless and toothless; it is we who gnaw like the worm - we who smite like the scythe. It is ourselves who abolish - ourselves who consume: we are the mildew, and the flame."
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"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been"
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"I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time."
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"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."
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"Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such."
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