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We see time's furrows on another's brow, And death intrench'd, preparing his assault; How few themselves in that just mirror see!
the wasting of time is the most personal, most private, most intimate form of conversation with oneself, as well as with another.
Here comes the time when, vibrating on its stem, every flower fumes like a censer; noises and perfumes circle in the evening air.
Time, the foe of man's dominion, Wheels around in ceaseless flight, Scattering from his hoary pinion Shades of everlasting night.
In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.
Writing is a miracle. You can travel anywhere in the world, to any time and any place — and still be home in time to have dinner.
Time, designing slowly, swiftly; Time, destroying slowly, swiftly; Time holding, possessing the earth in its tender indifference.
Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
Year chases year, decay pursues decay, Still drops some joy from with'ring life away; New forms arise, and diff'rent views engage
Even when all the worlds have frozen or exploded, and all the suns gone dead and cold, there'll still be time. Oh, God, what for?
Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have To wear away this long age of three hours Between our after-supper and bedtime?
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
You can kill a lot of time if you really want to put your mind to it Or leave it all behind and never really have to go through it
Time is a beautiful thing. It's like when you meet an old lover on the street six years later and they don't look so ugly anymore.
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.
I feel like my sixteenth birthday and the time I graduated from high school, and the first time I flew solo all wrapped up in one.
Too late I stayed, - forgive the crime! Unheeded flew the hours; How noiseless falls the foot of time That only treads on flowers.
You can kill time in a number of ways but it always depends on the kind of time you're fighting: some time is unkillable, immortal
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary!"
Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.
If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
There has never been any country at every moment so virtuous and so wise that it has not sometimes needed to be saved from itself.
I can at any moment convert my time into money, but I do not require more of the latter than is sufficient for necessary purposes.
Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face.
These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.
No matter how old an individual may be, no matter if he is young or old, if he thinks in accordance with the times he is immortal.
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
The atmosphere of our time is fast being cleared of the fumes and deadly gases that arose during the carboniferous age of theology.
The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.
These times of ours are series and full of calamity, but all times are essentially alike. As soon as there is life there is danger.
After this time I surpassed all others in authority, but I had no more power than the others who were also my colleagues in office.
There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.
Everything is flowing. The Great River of Time takes everything with it, and nothing in this world remains unchanged or stabilized.
Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
Never say never Never is a long, undependable time, and life is too full of rich possibilities to have restrictions placed upon it.
It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.
Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.
The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.
Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we've already wasted fifteen minutes.
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.
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
Commit yourself to deeper awareness. Be generous of spirit. Embrace every day as a new world. Let the timeless be in charge of time.
Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.
Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.