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Time fleeth on,
Youth soon is gone,
Naught earthly may abide;
Life seemeth fast,
But may not last—
It runs as runs the tide.

— Charles Godfrey Leland

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Love leads to present rapture,—then to pain;
But all through Love in time is healed again.

The brave deserve the lovely—every woman may be won.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for
Thought is the measure of life.

If all the world must see the world
As the world the world hath seen,
Then it were better for the world
That the world had never been.

Hans Breitmann gife a barty—
Where ish dat barty now?

Hans Breitmann's Party (1871)

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To say that the future will be different from the present is, to scientists, hopelessly self-evident.

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He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.

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Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. (Weil die Dinge sind, wie sie sind, werden die Dinge nicht so bleiben wie sie sind.)

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