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“And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, "It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see," quoth he, "how the world wags."”

World May Eye Time Ten Clock You Like It Touchstones Very Wise Wags

Book:As You Like it

Source: As You Like it

“See the minutes, how they run, How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.”

Men Years May Running Time Hours Minutes Mortals

Author:William Shakespeare

“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?”

“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

“You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.”

Inspirational Wells May Persons Time Punctuality Punctual Unfaithfulness

Author:Horace Mann

“You may not be able to predict the time of a tornado, earthquake or the Lord's return. But you can know for a fact that He is coming back. Work today to share the escape route of God's grace with others, before the night cometh.”

Knows May Facts Today Able Night Time Lord Grace Share Return Routes Coming Back Earthquakes God's Grace Tornadoes

Author:David Jeremiah

“The present is the only time in which any duty may be done or grace received.”

May Done Time Grace Duty Only Time Daily Bread

Author:C. S. Lewis

“Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?”

Knows May Age Time Force Grace Youth Equal Lust Old Age Do You Know Fascination

Author:Walt Whitman

“While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.”

Feels Years May Matter Age Time Company No Matter What Aging Pursuit Aging And Wisdom

Author:Amos Bronson Alcott

“Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.”

May Sometimes Time Youth

Book:The Critical Shaw: On Literature

Source: The Critical Shaw: On Literature

“We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.”

Knows May Past Time Tables Lays Sequence Here And There Convenient Ripple Spirals

Book:Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

Source: Ezra Pound and the Visual Arts

“Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.”

World Giving May Today Time Future Give Me Insight Antiques Future World American Scholar

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)

“He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.”

Ifs May Today Time Given Tomorrow Please

Author:Horace