And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
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And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the minds of men.
Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.
For eternally and always there is only now, one and the same now; the present is the only thing that has no end.
Like fragile ice anger passes away in time.
If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.
Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.
Time, time, time, see what's become of me,_x000D_ _x000D_ While I looked around,_x000D_ _x000D_ For my possibilities;_x000D_ _x000D_ I was so hard to please
History employs evolution to structure biological events in time.
We can no longer afford to spend major time on minor things than spend minor time on major things.
We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake.
It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.
Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted.
Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise,_x000D_ _x000D_ He who defers this work from day to day,_x000D_ _x000D_ Does on a river's bank expecting stay,_x000D_ _x000D_ Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone,_x000D_ _x000D_ That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
I saw dawn upon them like the sun a vision of a time when all men walk proudly through the earth and the bombs and missiles lie at the bottom of the ocean like the bones of dinosaurs buried under the shale of eras.
Uneasily the leaves fall at this season, forgetting what to do or where to go; the red amnesiacs of autumn drifting thru the graveyard forest. What they have forgotten they have forgotten: what they meant to do instead of fall is not in earth or time recoverable the fossils of intention, the shapes of rot.
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