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“Make use of time, let not advantage slip; Beauty within itself should not be wasted: Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime Rot and consume themselves in little time.”

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (1564 - April 23, 1616) was one of the greatest poets of the English Renaissance, renowned for his dramatic works. His plays spanned a variety of genres, including tragedy, comedy, and history, and have had a profound impact on literature worldwide. more

“Well, I do not mind telling you I have been at work upon this geometry of Four Dimensions for some time. Some of my results are curious. For instance, here is a portrait of a man at eight years old, another atfifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty-three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three-Dimensional representations of his Four-Dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.”

Men Years Mind Wells Has Beens Time Three Results Four Twenties Eight Instance Curious Fixed Dimensions Representation Portraits Sections Geometry Seventeen

Book:The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)

Source: The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)

“If I am recalling an incident very vividly I go back to the instant of its occurrence; I become absent minded, as you say. I jump back for a moment. Of course we have no means of staying back for any length of time any more than a savage or an animal has of staying six feet above the ground. But a civilized man is better off than the savage in this respect. He can go up against gravitation in a balloon, and why should we not hope that ultimately he may be able to stop or accelerate his drift along the Time Dimension; or even to turn about and travel the other way?”

“A word of the faith that never balks, Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely. It alone is without flaw, it alone rounds and completes all, That mystic baffling wonder alone completes all.”

Time Accepting Wonder Rounds All Time Flaws Mystic

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“Six years-six little years-six drops of time.”

Years Littles Time Six

Book:Poems ... A new edition

Source: Poems ... A new edition

“Modo, et modo, non habebent modum. By-and-by has no end.”

Ends Time End Times

Author:Saint Augustine

“But out of limitations comes creativity.”

Creativity Limitation

Author:Debbie Allen

“Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a state of duration as was before it and may be after it.”

Thinking World May Long States Time This World Eternity Duration Parentheses

Book:Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals

Source: Religio Medici [and] Its Sequel Christian Morals

“Time was made for slaves.”

Made Time Slave

Author:John Baldwin Buckstone

“Some wee short hour ayont the twal.”

Time Hours

Book:The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry

Source: The Works of Robert Burns;: With an Account of His Life, and a Criticism of His Writings, : to which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry

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