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"Time is the subtle thief of youth."
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"Miracles are instant gratification without a guarantee of any long term result."

"Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies."

"From morn to noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, a summer's day; and with the setting sun dropped from the zenith like a falling star."

"Man is like a breath, his days are like a passing shadow."

"Friends come in and out of our lives, like busboys in a restaurant."

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days - three such days with you I could fill with more delight than fifty common years could ever contain."

"But, though I was very much in lust with him, I knew from the start we were nothing like "forever." Maybe because forever is such a scary place."

"Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone."

"You are the trembling of time, that passesbetween vertical light and darkened sky."

"A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins."
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"So spake the Seraph Abdiel faithful found,Among the faithless, faithful only hee;Among innumerable false, unmov'd,Unshak'n, unseduc'd, unterrifi'dHis Loyaltie he kept, his Love, his Zeale;Nor number, nor example with him wroughtTo swerve from truth, or change his constant mindThough single. From amidst them forth he passd,Long way through hostile scorn, which he susteindSuperior, nor of violence fear'd aught;And with retorted scorn his back he turn'dOn those proud Towrs to swift destruction doom'd."

"Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason its self."

"But what more oft in Nations grown corrupt, And by thir vices brought to servitude, Than to love Bondage more than Liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty."

"A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold,And pavement stars-as starts to thee appearSoon in the galaxy, that milky wayWhich mightly as a circling zone thou seestPowder'd wiht stars."
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