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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.
two religion plunder
Charles Caleb Colton There are only two things in which the false professors of all religions have agreed--to persecute all other sects and to plunder their own.
two iron gold
Charles Caleb Colton There are two metals, one of which is omnipotent in the cabinet, and the other in the camp--gold and iron. He that knows how to apply them both may indeed attain the highest station.
two together mistress
Charles Caleb Colton If often happens too, both in courts and in cabinets, that there are two things going on together,--a main plot and an under-plot; and he that understands only one of them will, in all probability, be the dupe of both. A mistress may rule a monarch, but some obscure favorite may rule the mistress.
two people way
Charles Caleb Colton There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.
two small-changes society
Charles Dickens That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
two people tea
Charles Dickens The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
two kind lawyer
Charles Dickens Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.
two crap learners
Charles Stross I wrote two million words of crap. Maybe I'm just a slow learner .
two priorities world
Charles Stanley To become God's mighty servants, we must decide whether we will base our life on His priorities or the world's. The two are incompatible.
ribs eating rich
William Shakespeare Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits.