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"I was in the Square at the time. The crowd was a most good-humoured, easy going, smiling crowd; but presently it was transformed. A regiment of mounted police came cantering up."
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"The value of time is immeasurable."

"Worrying about what happened on Monday, or, what might happen on Wednesday, is at the expense of one's Tuesday."

"Don't equate effective living to being busy."

"Time passes..and a billion lives are affected in ways we'll never know."

"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."

"Time is the sole photographer of all the times, from the Big Bang till the possible Big Crunch!"
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"IN April 1882 my father died; and I was at once whirled out of my land of dreams into a very different sphere."

"Where there had been only jeers or taunts at first, crowds come to listen with serious and sympathetic men."

"I might have simply settled down into an armchair literary life. I really don't know exactly why I didn't."

"IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life."

"My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline."

"Whatever the practical value of the Walden experiment may be, there is no question that the book is one of the most vital and pithy ever written."

"When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!"

"For so, surely you will cast a light of gladness upon his onward journey, and contribute your part towards the building of that kingdom of love which links our earth to heaven."
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