Charles Caleb Colton Quotes About Time
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Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
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Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
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The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility.
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Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.
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Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
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Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
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Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
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Time, the cradle of hope, but the grave of ambition, is the stern corrector of fools, but the salutary counselor of the wise, bringing all they dread to the one, and all they desire to the other.
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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
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Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
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The present time has one advantage over every other -- it is our own.
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