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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln1809–1865
All are architects of Fate,
Working in these walls of Time.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Seaside and the Fireside (1850), The Builders, st. 1.
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882A Psalm of Life (1838)In context
- Inspiration
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,
That is known as the children’s hour.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882The Children’s Hour (1860)In context
- Children
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,⁠—act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882A Psalm of Life (1838)In context
- Motivation & Goals
Time drives everything before it, and is able to bring with it good as well as evil, and evil as well as good.
Niccolò Machiavelli1469–1527The Prince (1532), Chapter IIIIn context
- Good & Evil
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it’s against the oppressor. You don’t need anything else.
Malcolm X1925–1965Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
- Justice
Time cools, time clarifies, no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 7
- Emotion
Space, like time, engenders forgetfulness; but it does so by setting us bodily free from our surroundings and giving us back our primitive, unattached state.
Thomas Mann1875–1955The Magic Mountain (1924), Ch. 1
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!
Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593Doctor Faustus (c. 1592), spoken by FaustusIn context
- Life & Death
Had we but World enough, and Time,
This coyness Lady were no crime.
Andrew Marvell1621–1678To His Coy Mistress (1681)In context
- Love
But at my back I alwaies hear
Times winged Charriot hurrying near:
And yonder all before us lye
Desarts of vast Eternity.
Andrew Marvell1621–1678To His Coy Mistress (1681)In context
- Life & Death
Let us roll all our Strength, and all
Our sweetness, up into one Ball:
And tear our Pleasures with rough strife,
Thorough the Iron gates of Life.
Thus, though we cannot make our Sun
Stand still, yet we will make him run.
Andrew Marvell1621–1678To His Coy Mistress (1681)In context
- Love
Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.
Herman Melville1819–1891Moby-Dick (1851), Chapter CXXXVIn context
- Nature
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
John Milton1608–1674On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity (1629), Hymn, stanza 14, line 135