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time all-things
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Charles Caleb Colton Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
Charles Caleb Colton To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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
Charles Caleb Colton 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.
time past gone
Charles Caleb Colton 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.
dust two words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "My good fellow," retorted Mr. Boffin, "you have my word; and how you can have that, without my honour too, I don't know. I've sorted a lot of dust in my time, but I never knew the two things go into separate heaps."
dust tea might
Charles Dickens There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea...
dust devil not-afraid
Charles Spurgeon The devil is not afraid of a dust-covered Bible.
dust trying machines
Audre Lorde Because the machine will try to grind you into dust anyway, whether or not we speak.
dust significant specks
Bill Watterson I'M SIGNIFICANT!!! ... Say's the dust speck.
dust clay dignity
William Shakespeare But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike.
dust wings feet
Caryl Churchill People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?
dust balls bats
Casey Stengel Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball.
dust expectations people
Carl Honore I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.
sublime enchanting charm
Carl Friedrich Gauss The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.
sublime sorrow christianity
Edwin Hubbel Chapin Christianity has made martyrdom sublime, and sorrow triumphant.
sublime events wonderful
Benjamin Disraeli What wonderful things are events! The least are of greater importance than the most sublime and comprehensive speculations.
sublime alternatives lessons
Alain de Botton Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are frail and temporary and have no alternative but to accept limitations on our will; that we must bow to necessities greater than ourselves.
sublime essentials thieves
Denis Diderot If there is one realm in which it is essential to be sublime, it is in wickedness. You spit on a petty thief, but you can't deny a kind of respect for the great criminal.
sublime useless doe
Denis Diderot Whether God exists or does not exist, He has come to rank among the most sublime and useless truths.
sublime infinity source
Edmund Burke One source of the sublime is infinity.
sublime world phenomenal
Donna Tartt I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?
sublime tiny spirit
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?