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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."
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"I wouldn't ask too much of her,' I ventured. 'You can't change the past.''Can't change the past?' he cried incredulously. 'Why of course you can!"
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"Life is a bubble in the ocean of time. At the same time, it can hold all the water of the ocean in her heart."
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Personal Development
"A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars."
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"God had infinite time to give us.... He cut it up into a near succession of new mornings and with each therefore a new idea new inventions and new applications."
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"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."
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"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
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Personal Development
"The value of time is immeasurable."
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Personal Development
"Sometimes I feel like if you just watch things, just sit still and let the world exist in front of you - sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever."
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"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."
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"What is a epigram? A dwarfish whole. Its body brevity, and wit its soul."
Soul
"Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests."
Future
"People of humor are always in some degree people of genius."
Humor
"Brute animals have the vowel sounds; man only can utter consonants."
Animals
"Reviewers are usually people who would have been, poets, historians, biographer, if they could. They have tried their talents at one thing or another and have failed; therefore they turn critic."
People
"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain."
Imagination
"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order."
Poetry
"A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive."
Family
"He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope."
Hope
"Friendship is a sheltering tree."
Friendship
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