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If thou would'st have me sing and play As once I play'd and sung, First take this time-worn lute away, And bring one freshly strung.
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead.
Under no circumstances should you play fast if you have a winning position. Forget the clock, use all your time and make good moves.
Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generation.
God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.
So fades a summer cloud away; So sinks the gale when storms are o'er; So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore.
Time is an experience in consciousness. It is metabolized as our biological clock. Changing our experience of time can reverse aging.
A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.
Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways.
Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.
I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve.
In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin.
Time is the most terrible, the most discouraging, the most unconquerable of all obstacles, and one that may exist when no other does.
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.
Well, does he still have his fingernails? Making inquiries while negotiating the release of a US Army pilot from North Korea, in Time.
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance.
Cheat me not with time, with the dull ache of flesh, for all flesh turns, even the loveliest ankle and frail thigh, to bitterest dust.
All beauteous things for which we live By laws of space and time decay. But Oh, the very reason why I clasp them, is because they die.
As she read the ten commandments for the first time, a Chinese woman said, "I don't see how anyone can very well get on without them."
If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
What e'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time.
It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
One day/ One day I waited for myself/ I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came/ So I could know just who I am/ I who know others.
Lies always come first, dragging fools along by their irreparable vulgarity. Truth always lags last, limping along on the arm of time.
The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
Time is of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh to -day as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago.
Even so, one step from my grave, I believe that cruelty, spite, The powers of darkness will in time Be crushed by the spirit of light.
American time has stretched around the world. It has become the dominant tempo of modern history, especially of the history of Europe.
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing.
There is sorrow in finitude. The Self is beyond time, space and objects. It is infinite and hence of the nature of absolute happiness.
Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.
Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
There are no limits to either time or distance, except as man himself may make them. I have but to touch the wind to know these things.
When I was in England, I experimented with marijuana a time or two, and I didnt like it, and I didnt inhale, and I never tried again.
Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
The future is like the daytime moon, a diffident but faithful companion, so elegant as to be almost invisible, an inconspicuous marvel.
Every uncorrected error and unrepented sin is, in its own right, a fountain of fresh error and fresh sin flowing on to the end of time.
We are all the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.
Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
Don't keep saying, "I don't know where the time goes." It goes the same place it's always gone and no one has ever known where that is.
A bed or a chair will trick you if you stay still on them long at a time. They will draw out your strength and leave you weak as water.
What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.