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Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! Loitering slow, the FUTURE creepeth— Arrow-swift, the PRESENT sweepeth— And motionless forever stands the PAST.
Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! Loitering slow, the FUTURE creepeth— Arrow-swift, the PRESENT sweepeth— And motionless forever stands the PAST.
Approximate author period: c. 1782 AD · early modern
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- Schiller
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- Approximate author period: c. 1782 AD · early modern
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- Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations (1901) (1901 AD)
Quote1915 · printed citation: SCHILLER: Sentences of Confucius, Time.
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