![]() I never knew the time to pass so swiftly, it seems to me, as the past summer. Since I wrote you last, the summer is past and gone, and autumn with the sere and yellow leaf is already upon us. I have seen a flower blooming in beauty in a secluded vale, and, ere I had a chance to look again, a chilly breath of air had scattered its petals and left it a ruin. ~George Elliston, "Pretense," Through Many Windows, 1924 ~Marie Corelli (Mary Mills Mackay), A Romance of Two Worlds, 1886 The brief cycles of centuries are as a breath in the workings of the Infinite. Then you understand that - then any time at all will be the right time for you.” ~Peter S. You can strike your own time, and start the count anywhere. the important thing is for you to understand that it doesn’t matter whether the clock strikes ten next, or seven, or fifteen o’clock. Like everyone else, I lived in a house bricked up with seconds and minutes, weekends and New Year’s Days, and I never went outside until I died, because there was no other door.” I said ‘one o’clock’ as though I could see it, and ‘Monday’ as though I could find it on the map and I let myself be hurried along from minute to minute, day to day, year to year, as though I were actually moving from one place to another. ![]() “When I was alive, I believed - as you do - that time was at least as real and solid as myself, and probably more so. “Remember what I told you about time,” the skull said. The clock strikes one that just struck two – ~John Lubbock, "Industry," The Use of Life, 1894 Never waste anything, but, above all, never waste time. It is an old story, this irresistible and ceaseless onflow of life and time time always scattering the flowers of life with a lavish hand along its course. ~Minna Thomas Antrim (1861–1950), Phases, Mazes, and Crazes of Love, 1904 Time, the tragedian, rarely forgets his lines. Time Quotes and Sayings The Quote Garden ™
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