Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes, Time Quotes, Ebb And Flow Quotes

Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

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In this country [England] it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, to encourage the others. The reference is to Admiral John Byng, who was executed in 1757 for failing to prevent the French from taking Minorca.

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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

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Ordinary people merely think how they shall 'spend' their time; a man of talent tries to 'use' it.

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Time is generally the best doctor.

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I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors since the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this present twelve o'clock at midnight.

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But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water.

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Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves.

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How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

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O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

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time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.

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These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

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True and false fears let us refrain, Let us love nobly, and live, and add again Years and years unto years, till we attain To write threescore ; this is the second of our reign.

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Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.

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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.

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Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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It is time for writers to admit that nothing in this world makes sense. Only fools and charlatans think they know and understand everything. The stupider they are, the wider they conceive their horizons to be. And if an artist decides to declare that he understands nothing of what he sees - this in itself constitutes a considerable clarity in the realm of thought, and a great step forward.

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No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change.

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O mighty-mouthed inventor of harmonies, O skilled to sing of Time or Eternity, God-gifted organ-voice of England, Milton, a name to resound for ages.

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