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So in process of four or five years the emperor called me, as divers times he had done before.

The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.

Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Be not entangled in this world of days and nights; Thou hast another time and space as well.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

He who matures early lives in anticipation.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

There’s no present. There’s only the immediate future and the recent past.

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