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Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

“Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.”

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Charles Caleb Colton was an English writer active from 1780 to 1832. Known for his humor and wit, he is particularly recognized for his aphorisms and satirical works. more

“O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.”

Years Littles Made Age Faces Time Seeing All Things Mirrors Teeth Old Age Consumers Relentless Wrinkles Envious Carried Away Withered Helen

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.”

Time Promise Deceived Disappoint

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.”

States Form Time Nations Space Support Happened Events Kings Mountain Fishes Various Bones Destroyed Serving Confined Undone Props Wondrous Robbers Recess

Book:The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

“If we consider eternity, into that time never entered; eternity is not an everlasting flux of time, but time is as a short parenthesis in a long period; and eternity had been the same as it is, though time had never been.”

Ifs Long Time Periods Eternity Everlasting Flux Parentheses

Book:John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers

Source: John Donne: Selections from Divine Poems, Sermons, Devotions, and Prayers

“The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.”

Success Found Wealth Wise Mere Prosperity Possession Abundance Application Gratification Expenditures

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past Into different lives, or into any future; You are not the same people who left that station Or who will arrive at any terminus, While the narrowing rails slide together behind you.”

People Different Together Past Time Left Behinds Stations Slides Behind You Traveller Escaping Rail Different Life

Book:The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

Source: The Complete Poems and Plays of T. S. Eliot

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

Mind Past Time Equal Shore

Book:Collected Poems 1909-1962

Source: Collected Poems 1909-1962

“A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments.”

People Moments Time Patterns Timeless Redeemed Quartets

Author:T. S. Eliot

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