Walt Whitman Quotes, Time Quotes, Stars Quotes

When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them; When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick; Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.

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I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake.

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Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

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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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'The time has come,' the walrus said, 'to talk of many things: of shoes and ships - and sealing wax - of cabbages and kings.'

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A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him.

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Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

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Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

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Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer.

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There comes a moment in the day when you have written your pages in the morning, attended to your correspondence in the afternoon, and have nothing further to do. Then comes that hour when you are bored; that's the time for sex.

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it

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Come, Time, and teach me many years, I do not suffer in dream; For now so strange do these things seem, Mine eyes have leisure for their tears.

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Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

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Hours are golden links, God's token Reaching heaven; but one by one Take them, lest the chain be broken Ere the pilgrimage be done.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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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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Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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