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.
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Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end.
We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.
We say we waste time, but that is impossible. We waste ourselves.
Why slander we the times?
What crimes
Have days and years, that we
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Why slander we the times?
What crimes
Have days and years, that we
Thus charge them with iniquity?
If we would rightly scan,
It's not the times are bad, but man.
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is
past, and as a watch read more
For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is
past, and as a watch in the night.
Don't give someone all of your time if they're only gonna give you half of theirs.
Don't give someone all of your time if they're only gonna give you half of theirs.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.rn
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he read more
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
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.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
