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“Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower.”

“Decades have a delusive edge to them. They are not, of course, really periods at all, except as any other ten years may be. But we, looking at them, are caught by the different name each bears, and give them different attributes, and tie labels on them, as if they were flowers in a border.”

Ifs Giving Years May Different Past Time Courses Names Flower Bears Periods Ten Edges Caught Decades Labels Borders Ties Attributes Different Names

Book:Told by an Idiot

Source: Told by an Idiot

“Thoughts must come naturally, like wild-flowers; they cannot be forced in a hot-bed, even although aided by the leaf-mould of your past.”

Past Flower Bed Hot Our Past Leafs Your Past Mould

Book:Dreamthorp: eight essays

Source: Dreamthorp: eight essays

“Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.”

Past Flower Clothes Graves Grass Repentance

Book:The Poetical Works of John Sterling

Source: The Poetical Works of John Sterling

“The golden age is not in the past, but in the future; not in the origin of human experience, but in its consummate flower; not opening in Eden, but out from Gethsemane.”

Humans Age Past Flower Future Opening Golden Human Experience Eden Golden Age Gethsemane

Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“Time in China has no immediacy as in America. Here I find the swift passage of our few earthly years accepted as naturally as the fall of flower and leaf. ... I hear and speak a language in which grammar has no tense. Both scholars and illiterates, in ordinary daily speech, tell an event of centuries ago as casually as an incident of the hour. Only as my knowledge has accumulated have I been able to know whether something related happened just then or in some past dynasty.”

Knows Years Able America Past Time Fall Speak Language Hours Happened Century Events Flower Speech Ordinary China Accepted Related Passages Scholar Leafs Grammar Incidents Tense Dynasty Immediacy

Author:Nora Waln

“There was a wonderful atmosphere of gentle age, a smell of flowers and beeswax, sweet yet faintly sour and musty; a smell that makes you feel very tender towards the past.”

Feels Age Past Wonderful Sweet Flower Smell Atmosphere Gentle Sour

Book:I Capture The Castle

Source: I Capture The Castle