Walt Whitman Quotes, Time Quotes, Dark Quotes

The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

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A sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.

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He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!

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I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality.

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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

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It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others.

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Tags : Jane Austen Quotes , Time Quotes , Loneliness Quotes

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Life Quotes , Time Quotes

Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide.

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I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.

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Tags : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes , Love Quotes , Time Quotes

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend.

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Time Quotes , Toil Quotes

ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea.

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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Education Quotes , Time Quotes

A lie can make it half way around the world before the truth has time to put its boots on.

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Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal.

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A hidden Bliss is at the root of things. A mute Delight regards Time's countless works: To house God's joy in things Space gave wide room, To house God's joy in self our souls were born.

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Tags : Sri Aurobindo Quotes , Time Quotes , Self Quotes

I am any man's suitor, If any will be my tutor: Some say this life is pleasant, Some think it speedeth fast, In time there is no present, In eternity no future, In eternity no past. We laugh, we cry, we are born, we die. Who will riddle me the how and the why?

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Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

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The thought of our past years in me doth breed perpetual benedictions.

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Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

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