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«No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.»
«There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity»
Author: Tom Peters | About: Ethics | Keywords: integrity, lapse, lapsed, lapses, lapsing, minor, minors
«Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.»
«No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters»
Author: George Eliot (Novelist) | Keywords: interpreters, lapse
«In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.»
«Liquid lapse of murmuring streams.»
«As for literature, thefts cannot harm it, while the lapse of ages augments its value»
«Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.»