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- As if you could TELL time without injuring eternity.
- Matthew Ryan
- Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The liar's punishment ... is that he cannot believe anyone else.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- He who has never hoped can never despair.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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