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Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
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Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
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Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
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Dost thou love Life? then do not squander Time; for that’s the Stuff Life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1746 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/15…
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FAUSTUS. Ah, Faustus,
Now hast thou but one bare hour to live,
And then thou must be damn’d perpetually!
Stand still, you ever-moving Spheres of Heaven,
That time may cease, and midnight never come;
Fair Nature’s eye, rise, rise again, and make
Perpetual day; or let this hour be but
A year, a month, a week, a natural day,
That Faustus may repent and save his soul!Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
The Tragicall History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, Act 5, sc. 2 (sc. 14), l. 1451ff (1594; 1604 “A” text)More about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1988-08-28)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/82791…
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1988-08-28)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/82791…
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1988-08-28)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/82791…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #brevity #enjoyment #passageoftime #play #playing #sloth #summer #time #vacation #relaxation
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1988-08-28)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/82791…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #billwatterson #calvinandhobbes #brevity #enjoyment #passageoftime #play #playing #sloth #summer #time #vacation #relaxation
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A quotation from Bill Watterson
CALVIN: There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1988-08-28)More about this quote: wist.info/watterson-bill/82791…
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #slaughterhousefive #death #lifespan #passageoftime #past #perspective #present #simultaneity #time
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #slaughterhousefive #death #lifespan #passageoftime #past #perspective #present #simultaneity #time
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A quotation from Kurt Vonnegut
The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922-2007) American novelist, journalist
Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 2 (1969)More about this quote: wist.info/vonnegut-kurt-jr/557…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #vonnegut #kurtvonnegut #kurtvonnegutjr #slaughterhousefive #death #lifespan #passageoftime #past #perspective #present #simultaneity #time
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All streams are but tributary to the ocean, which itself does not stream, and the shores are unchanged but in longer periods than man can measure. Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American philosopher and writer
A Week on the Concord and Marrimack Rivers, “Monday” (1849)More about this quote: wist.info/thoreau-henry-david/…
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #hitchhikersguide #hitchhikersguidetothegalaxy #marvintheparanoidandroid #badtimes #complaint #depression #hyperbole #marchoftime #passageoftime #pessimism #waiting #worst
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A quotation from Douglas Adams
MARVIN: The first ten million years were the worst. And the second ten million, they were the worst too. The third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a decline.
Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Phase 1, “Fit the 5th” (BBC Radio) (1978-04-05)More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/35056/
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Tell yourself, when you feel exasperated and out of all patience, that this mortal life endures but a moment; it will not be long before we shall one and all have been laid to rest.
[ὅταν λίαν ἀγανακτῇς ἢ καὶ δυσπαθῇς, ἀκαριαῖος ὁ ἀνθρώπειος βίος καὶ μετ᾿ ὀλίγον πάντες ἐξετάθημεν.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 11, ch. 18 (11.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/8183…
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RICHARD: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 50 (5.5.50) (1595)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
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RICHARD: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 50 (5.5.50) (1595)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
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RICHARD: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 50 (5.5.50) (1595)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
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RICHARD: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Richard II, Act 5, sc. 5, l. 50 (5.5.50) (1595)More about this quote: wist.info/shakespeare-william/…
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A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
Soon you will have forgotten the world, and soon the world will have forgotten you.
[Ἐγγὺς μὲν ἡ σὴ περὶ πάντων λήθη, ἐγγὺς δὲ ἡ πάντων περὶ σοῦ λήθη.]Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 7, ch. 21 (7.21) (AD 161-180) [tr. Staniforth (1964)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/7926…
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MYCETES: Time passeth swift away;
Our life is frail, and we may die to-day.Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564-1593) English dramatist and poet
Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1, Act 1, sc. 1 (1586-1587)More info about this quote: wist.info/marlowe-christopher/…
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A quotation from Bertrand Russell
Our doings are not so important as we naturally suppose; our successes and failures do not after all matter very much. Even great sorrows can be survived; troubles which seem as if they must put an end to happiness for life, fade with the lapse of time until it becomes almost impossible to remember their poignancy. But over and above these self-centered considerations is the fact that one’s ego is no very large part of the world. The man who can center his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life which is impossible to the pure egoist.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) English mathematician and philosopher
Conquest of Happiness, Part 1, ch. 5 “Fatigue” (1930)Sourcing, notes: wist.info/russell-bertrand/775…
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A quotation from Watterson, Bill:
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CALVIN: Know what’s weird? Day by day nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything is different.
»Full quote, sourcing, notes:
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