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“Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.”

Source: FAULKNER READER

“The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.”

Feels Long Young Time Speak Ought Weight Lear Sad Times Cordelia

Author:William Shakespeare

“Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”

“One of the great disadvantages of hurry is that it takes such a long time.”

Life Long Time Hate Long Time Hatred Disadvantages Hurrying

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”

People Men Long Young Time Differences Learning Talent Genius Long Time Men And Women Young Man Ambitious Little Women Talent And Genius

Book:Little Women

Source: Little Women

“Time is for dragonflies and angels. The former live too little and the latter live too long.”

Littles Long Time Angel Former Latter Dragonflies

Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“It took me a long time to realize this: We get to choose what defines us.”

Inspirational Long Time Choices Realizing Long Time Being Yourself Finding Yourself Self Motivation Defining Follow Your Heart Trust Yourself Self Empowerment Listen To Your Heart Listen To Yourself Power Of Choice Choose Wisely

Book:The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

Source: The Girl Who Chased the Moon: A Novel

“Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.”

Men Littles Long Home Age Time Too Much Objects Adventure Periods Travel Aging Mediocrity Repent Life And Love Funny Adventure

Book:How to enjoy your life and your job

Source: How to enjoy your life and your job

“Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.”

Long Seems Time Sorrow Short Time Sustaining

Book:The Complete Sonnets and Poems

Source: The Complete Sonnets and Poems

“On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.”

Humans Long Important Time Imagination Effects Events Produce Aspect Assuming Fancy Incidents Antiquity Human Imagination

Author:James F. Cooper

“Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.”

Men Long Seems Past Time Given Causes Memories Blame Flight Perceive Passages Time Management Good Memories Lament

Book:Thoughts on Art and Life:

Source: Thoughts on Art and Life:

“The avalanche of time sweeps everything before it. Every individual instant hurtles into oblivion, drowning out the obliteration of the instant immediately preceding it, and then it too disappears under the onslaught of the next and the next and the next. When the avalanche has shuddered past for a long enough time, the perception of the past evolves. Distant events grow beyond mere history and take on the weight of legend.”

Long Enough Past Time Next Individual Grows Events Perception Weight Mere Disappear Evolve Instant Legends End Times Oblivion Drowning Enough Time Avalanches

Book:Under the Eye of God

Source: Under the Eye of God

“I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.”

Mind Long Time Sound Watches Clock Parades Unbroken Oblivious

Book:The Sound And The Fury

Source: The Sound And The Fury

“Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv'ryTay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away On the last Sabbath day of1879, Which will be remember'd for a very long time.”

Long Has Beens Lasts Beautiful Remember Time Taken Long Time Sorry Bridges Alas Ninety Sabbath Railway Sabbath Day

Author:William Topaz McGonagall

“Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness Lady were no crime. We would sit down, and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day. Thou by the Indian Ganges'side Shouldst rubies find: I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the flood.”

Thinking World Way Years Long Enough Time Sides Walks Love You Crime Ten Down And Complaining Indian Tides Flood Rubies Long Love

Author:Andrew Marvell

“We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.”

Long Moments Time Masters Long Time

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Time that is moved by little fidget wheels Is not myTime, the flood that does not flow. Between the double and the single bell Of a ship's hour, between a round of bells From the dark warship riding there below, I have lived many lives, and this one life Of Joe, long dead, who lives between five bells.”

Littles Long Doe Time Hours Dark Five Flow Moved Rounds Ships Wheels Bells Riding Flood Warships

Author:Adam Skirving

“Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!”

Long Doe Ends Moving Time Hours Numbers Weary Feathers Sad Times

Author:Edmund Spenser

“A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.”

Long Time Rich Five Doctors All Time Classic Sentiments Epic Jewels Violet Lectures Scrap Sparkle Elegy Odes

Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

“For a long time we dreamed of a real leather ball, and at last my brother had one for his birthday. The feel of the leather, the stitching round it, the faint gold letters stamped upon it, the touch of the seam, the smell of it, all affected me so deeply that I still have that ache of beauty when I hold a cricket ball.”

Feels Long Stills Real Lasts Time Brother Long Time Letters Gold Balls Rounds Smell All Time My Brother Affected Cricket Ache Leather

Author:Alison Uttley

“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

“Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.”

Years Long Time Hours Activity Idleness

Book:This Business of Living

Source: This Business of Living

“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

“How short our happy days appear! How long the sorrowful!”

Long Time Sorrowful Happy Day

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“I see that time divided is never long, and that regularity abridges all things.”

Long Time All Things Divided Regularity

Book:Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire

Source: Madame de Staël, a Study of Her Life and Times: The First Revolution and the First Empire

“There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.”

Men World Long Age Time Offers Aging Proof Old Man Despicable

Author:Seneca the Younger

“I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.”

Way Should Looks Long Enough Age Life Is Time Fall Honor Aging Old Age My Way Obedience Yellow Troops Leafs Accompany Macbeth Theme Yellow Leaves

Book:Macbeth

Source: Macbeth

“A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.”

Men Long Age Time Travel Aging Seeking Old Age Growing Old Staying Young

Book:The substance of man

Source: The substance of man

“If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.”

Ifs Wells Long Age Happiness Time Aging Folly Wickedness Life Is Short Poor Richard Live Well Life Time

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“Rejoice that you have still have a long time to live, before the thought comes to you that there is nothing more in the world to see.”

World Long Stills Age Time Long Time Aging Rejoice

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch's statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”

Long Age Young Time Learning Youth Ready Tasks Aging Statements Old Age Greek Amazed Elders Eighty Cato

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.”

Years Long Reason Age Time Passion Peace Cases Poet Aging Fifty Fourth Treaties Peace Treaties Fourth Year

Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg

“Time is the friend of the wonderful business. It's the enemy of the lousy business. If you're in a lousy business for a long time, you're going to get a lousy result, even if you buy it cheap. If you're in a wonderful business for a long time, even if you pay a little too much going in, you're going to get a wonderful result if you stay in a long time.”

Ifs Littles Long Time Results Pay Enemy Too Much Wonderful Long Time

Author:Warren Buffett

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