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  1. A quotation from Kit Marlowe

    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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  2. A quotation from Samuel Johnson

    The distance is commonly very great between actual performances and speculative possibility. It is natural to suppose, that as much as has been done to-day may be done to-morrow; but on the morrow some difficulty emerges, or some external impediment obstructs. Indolence, interruption, business, and pleasure, all take their turns of retardation; and every long work is lengthened by a thousand causes that can, and ten thousand that cannot, be recounted. Perhaps no extensive and multifarious performance was ever effected within the term originally fixed in the undertaker’s mind. He that runs against Time, has an antagonist not subject to casualties.

    Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English writer, lexicographer, critic
    Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, “Pope” (1781)

    More info about this quote: wist.info/johnson-samuel/78684…

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