"Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every thing admonishes us how needlessly long life is.
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“Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'”
“They who have drunk beer, fall on their back, but there is a peculiarity in the effects of the drink made from barley, for they that get drunk on other intoxicating liquors fall on all parts of their body, they fall on the left side, on the right side, on their faces, and and on their backs. But it is only those who get drunk on beer that fall on their backs with their faces upward.”
“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”
More on Time
“If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.”
“In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious.”
“Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.”