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Years
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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
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“Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.”
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“Years flowed in and flowed out of his mind like tides, leaving pools of memories full of small living things.”
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“On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.”
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“I could not prove the Years had feet — / Yet confident they run ...”
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“... years ... should be nothing to you. Who asked you to count them or to consider them? In the world of wild Nature, time is measured by seasons only — the bird does not know how old it is — the rose-tree does not count its birthdays!”
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“In youth the years are long, the moments short, but in age the moments are long, the years short.”
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“The days are long, the years short.”
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“Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.”
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“Autumn to winter, winter into spring, / Spring into summer, summer into fall — / So rolls the changing year, and so we change; / Motion so swift, we know not that we move ...”
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“A new year is a gift, a small piece of infinity, to do with as we will.”