Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling,

The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not…. – Thomas Carlyle

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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. – Thomas Carlyle

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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing — a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. – Thomas Carlyle

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I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. – Groucho Marx

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Time is like the wind, it lifts the light and leaves the heavy. – Doménico Cieri Estrada

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Life is half spent before one knows what it is. – Proverb

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