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While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
For the first time the peasant has seen real freedom - freedom to eat his bread, freedom from starvation.
Vaccinated Time Travel: To fantasize about traveling backward in time, but only with proper vaccinations.
Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.
To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape.
We empower ourselves every time we accept responsibility for choosing the thoughts and feelings we act on.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it.
We push time from us, and we wish him back; * * * * * * Life we think long and short; death seek and shun.
The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time.
Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Time is of your own making; Its clock ticks in your head. The moment you stop thought Time too stops dead.
O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
It is not birth, marriage, or death, but gastrulation which is truly the most important time in your life.
And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?
Mathematicians use intuition, conjecture and guesswork all the time except when they are in the classroom.
Beyond doubt, the most salient characteristic of life in this latter half of the 19th Century is its SPEED
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years.
Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done.
We discover a new world every time we see the earth again after it has been covered for a season with snow.
I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years.
The world doesn't come to the clever folks, it comes to the stubborn, obstinate, one-idea-at-a-time people.
time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.
In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
Imitate time; it destroys everything slowly; it undermines, it wears away, it detaches, it does not wrench.
Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.
Earth has waited for them, All the time of their growth Fretting for their decay: Now she has them at last.
The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?
The clocks are all turned forward from Funny Time to Right Time. I always remember, "Spring back or Fall in.
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.
To be suspicious is not a fault. To be suspicious all the time without coming to a conclusion is the defect.
If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.
Visits are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not that, would do nothing.
My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.
Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.
Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.