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"The mind of man, moreover, works with equal strangeness upon the body of time. An hour, once it lodges in the queer element of the human spirit, may be stretched to fifty or a hundred times its clock length; on the other hand, an hour may be accurately represented on the timepiece of the mind by one second."

"Time is inexplicable because it moves " clicks away " at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present. Time has a necessary affinity with both heaven and the earthly reality. 'Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it is the soul of the world.' Plato said that time and heaven must be coexistent. Without time nothing can be created or generated in the universe, nor is anything intelligible without eternity. Time is no accident or affection, but the cause, power, and principle of the symmetry and order that confines all created beings, by which the animated nature of the universe moves."

"You may need an additional money to make things happen and have it, but you can have an additional time anywhere. Value your time; as you wait, it is passing!"

"Today is a gift that will be taken from you at day's end. Don't waste a moment, a chance, a lesson. You'll never live today again."

"I think it takes people to get to know you and the recognition comes over time."
Explore more quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."

"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."

"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind."

"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."

"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter."

"When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution."
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