"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."

Time, Act, Books, Now

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Measurement, Change

"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!"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, American Author

Time, Past, Change, Possibility, Hope

"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."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Time, Life, Bubble, Ocean

"Wouldn't it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If you can foresee regret, you can mind-travel to the future. If you can train yourself to mind-travel effectively, you can intentionally affect your future by doing something about it today."

Richie Norton, American Author

Time, Regret, Future, Action

"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."

Henry David Thoreau, American Author

Time, Life, Haste, Housekeeping

"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."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

Time, God, Idea, Invention

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Time, Work, Process, Patience

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

Hermann Hesse, German Novelist

Time, Eternity

"The value of time is immeasurable."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Time, Immeasurable, Worth, Life

"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."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Time, Moment, World, Stillness

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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

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"The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously."

Man, Men, Bible, Books, Sense

"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

Future, Mistrust, Past, Present

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."

Satire, Misery, Result, Thinking

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

Genius, Labor

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

Progress, Victory, Argument

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."

Poetry, Will

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"We cannot measure time. We can only measure changes of life and the universe."

"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!"

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Time is the greatest and longest-established spinner of all. ... His factory is a secret place his work noiseless and his hands are mutes."

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."

"The value of time is immeasurable."

"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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"When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees."

"The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously."

"Who ever has no fixed opinions has no constant feelings."

"There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world."

"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."

"We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future."

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."

"Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them."

"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."

"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."