Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past i

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, and, like the flash of lightning, at once exists and expires. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these theres time, the Bastard Time. – John Steinbeck

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If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me. – William Shakespeare

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If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time. – Marcel Proust

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Young poets bewail the passing of love old poets, the passing of time. There is surprisingly little difference. – Mason Cooley

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