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It must have required enormous effort for man to overcome his natural tendency to live like the animals in a continual present.
Time is not a river running inexorably to the sea, but the sea itself—its tides that appear and disappear, the fog that rises to become rain in a different river. All things that were will come again.
The "good old times" — all times when old are good —
Are gone.
But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?
Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.
Time, that aged nurse,
Rocked me to patience.
Whan the sunne shinth make hay, whiche is to say,
Take time whan time comth, lest time steale away.
For the next inn he spurs amain,
In haste alights, and skuds away,
But time and tide for no man stay.
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