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"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere."
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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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"The glorious uncertainty of the law was a thing well known and complained of, by all ignorant people, but all learned gentleman considered it as its greatest excellency."
People
"Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over."
Miracles
"To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief."
Jest
"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible."
Nothing
"The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed."
Succeed
"A bumper of good liquor will end a contest quicker than justice, judge, or vicar."
End
"You know it is not my interest to pay the principal, or my principal to pay the interest."
Interest
"Won't you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you."
Gardening
"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature."
Nature
"There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy."
Heart
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