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time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
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.
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
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.
ancient bringing foot life rest
We usually say of ancient persons, that they have already one foot in the grave, and the rest of their life is nothing else but the bringing of these feet together. John Pearson
ancient conjecture diana given originally portion rise temple
The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.
ancient fell love monastery surrounded
I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love.
ancient ancient-history
I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum. Alan Titchmarsh
ancient move reason unless
Unless there's a reason to re-open ancient history, we should move on,
ancient arabic believed century greek hindus physical sought
Physical immortality is seductive. The ancient Hindus sought it; the Greek physician Galen from the 2nd Century A.D. and the Arabic philosopher/physician Avicenna from the 11th Century A.D. believed in it. S. Jay Olshansky
ancient both classical four greek heart learned love modern speak terms took
I would love with all my heart to be able to speak Greek, classical or modern or both. It is a beautiful language, both aurally and in terms of the intricacy of its construction. I took four semesters of Ancient Greek in college, but it's all rusted away now - and I never learned to speak it anyway. Sarah Monette
ancient conditions
If our inconceivably ancient universe even had any beginning, the conditions determining that beginning must even now be engraved in the atomic weights.
ancient codes common decisions derives distilled law life opponents purpose rather respect rules unchanged
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their unchanged purpose is to show respect for opponents and the game. In baseball, as in the remainder of life, the most important rules are unwritten. But not unenforced. George Will
latter matter matters says speech three
Three things matter in a speech - who says it, how he says it and what he says, and of the three, the latter matters the least
latter mitchell split thursday tough visited
I thought we would have probably split with Sickles and Countryside (the latter of which visited Mitchell on Thursday night). It's a tough district.
latter marked piece taking
I always marked up a piece of paper before taking a job, looking at the pluses and minuses. If the latter outnumbered the former, I would pass.
latter period steadily tendency
In the period from 1824 to 1833, the tendency was steadily in the former direction, but it was only in the latter part of it that it was made really efficient. Henry Charles Carey
latter estates careful
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never. Hosea Ballou
latter life running viable
The joke I always make is I'm either running for reelection, running for Senate, running for governor, or running for my life. The latter is also a viable possibility. Cory Booker
latter
He's progressing, getting back to form. He's not where he should be right now, but he could be by the latter part of the week. Bill Callahan
latter former determine
Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being. Martin Heidegger
latter distasteful
As between the intolerable and the merely distasteful, I must choose the latter. Rex Stout