Abraham Cowley Quotes, Time Quotes, Past Quotes

Nothing is there to come, and nothing past, But an eternal Now does always last.

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She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

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Tags : William Wordsworth Quotes , Time Quotes , Stars Quotes

Time ... thou ceaseless lackey to eternity.

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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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In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which shapes the events of the time and determines their ultimate issues.

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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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Study without reflection is a waste of time; reflection without study is dangerous.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Time Quotes , Reflection Quotes

It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Summer Quotes , Time Quotes

Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us.

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Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it.

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Time in his aging overtakes all things alike.

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There's a time for all things.

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Much rain wears the marble.

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We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it.

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Tags : Ernest Hemingway Quotes , Courage Quotes , Time Quotes

It is odd but agitation or contest of any kind gives a rebound to my spirits and sets me up for a time.

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In time we hate that which we often fear.

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Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Time Quotes , Losing Quotes

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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My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

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Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind.

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