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Time Quotes by George Eliot
- Time, like money, is measured by our needs.
- There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must…
- What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity.
- Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms…
- The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to…
- The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we…
- No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
- We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips,…
- I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come.
- It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops
- With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is…
- In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the…
- We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same…
- It's no trifle at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution
- Here was a man who now for the first time found himself looking into the eyes of death--who was passing through one of those rare…
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- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner… — Aristotle
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