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 Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is 
not long. The created world is read more 
 Think not thy time short in this world, since the world itself is 
not long. The created world is but a small parenthesis in 
eternity, and a short interposition, for a time, between such a 
state of duration as was before it and may be after it. 
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time.
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your read more
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
I found golf was too time consuming, but I did enjoy it.
Forever is a long, long time and time has a way of changing things.
Forever is a long, long time and time has a way of changing things.
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of read more
I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other.
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought read more
Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.
 Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight;
 Make me a child again just for tonight.
  Mother, read more 
 Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight;
 Make me a child again just for tonight.
  Mother, come back from the echoeless shore,
   Take me again to your heart as of yore. 
One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.
One must learn a different... sense of time, one that depends more on small amounts than big ones.