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"Many miles away there's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the Shore of a dark Scottish lake."
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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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"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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"The value of time is immeasurable."
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"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 diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it."
Reading
"One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation."
Life
"If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors."
Actor
"Look back, and smile on perils past."
Past
"A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy."
Truth
"Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness."
Vice
"Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer."
Age
"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone."
Thinking
"Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary."
Wisdom
"For success, attitude is equally as important as ability."
Attitude
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