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"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."
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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."
"A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time."
"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
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"It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace."
"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime."
"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."
"Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."
"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."
"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."
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