Oscar Wilde Quotes, Time Quotes, Past Quotes

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

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Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

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No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed.

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Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

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Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow, And pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow; Thou canst help time to furrow me with age, But stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage.

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Time, which shows so vacant, indivisible, and divine in its coming, is slit and peddled into trifles and tatters. A door is to bepainted, a lock to be repaired. I want wood, or oil, or meal, or salt; the house smokes, or I have a headache; then the tax; and an affair to be transacted with a man without heart or brains; and the stinging recollection of an injurious or very awkward word,--these eat up the hours.

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The obscurest epoch is to-day.

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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

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You cannot prevent and prepare for war at the same time.

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Time Quotes , Loneliness Quotes

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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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.

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A minute goes by so fearfully quick. You might as well try to stop a Bandersnatch!

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We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

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And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair.

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God has not bowed to our nervous haste nor embraced the methods of our machine age. The man who would know God must give time to Him.

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Nature is methodical, and doeth her work well. Time is never to be hurried.

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No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.

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Tags : Francis Bacon Quotes , Time Quotes , Artist Quotes

But eternity is not temporality at a standstill. What is oppressive about the concept of the eternal is the justification, incomprehensible to us, that time must undergo in eternity and the logical conclusion of that, the justification of ourselves as we are.

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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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