“Those who live to the future must always appear selfish to those who live to the present.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
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“Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)
Source: The Heart of Emerson's Journals
Source: Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer
“Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.”
“He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.”
Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature
Source: Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales
Source: The Rambler: In Four Volumes..
“O, for an engine, to keep back all clocks, or make the sun forget his motion!”
Source: The works of Ben Jonson: With notes critical and explanatory, and a biographical memoir
“If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”
“Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.”
“Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.”
“The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active.”
Source: Goethe's Letters to Zelter: With Extracts from Those of Zelter to Goethe
“If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.”
Source: The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry ...
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.”
Source: The structure and dynamics of the psyche
“People who never have any time on their hands are those who do the least.”
“The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.”
“Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.”
“Live your life and forget your age.”
Source: The Positive Principle Today
Source: Essayes
“How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!”
“Time is invincible, impregnable, insurmountable, invulnerable, unstoppable and time is invisible.”
Source: The Time Machine
“Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.”
Source: Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays: Tamburlaine, Parts One and Two, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus
“On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.”
Source: The Handmaid's Tale
“Sun and moon, sun and moon, time goes.”
Source: Rabbit, Run