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Page 65
... present vanishes into the past before anyone can say " Jack , " or " Robinson " either . The present is far more slippery than the past , for the past stays like an enclosed pond ; the present is like a brook , whose waters perpetually ...
... present vanishes into the past before anyone can say " Jack , " or " Robinson " either . The present is far more slippery than the past , for the past stays like an enclosed pond ; the present is like a brook , whose waters perpetually ...
Page 66
... present events that cover many experiences in time and space ; seeing them , that is , from beginning to end as a whole . The battle of Verdun , continuing for months , will be present as a whole perhaps only to a few generals like Foch ...
... present events that cover many experiences in time and space ; seeing them , that is , from beginning to end as a whole . The battle of Verdun , continuing for months , will be present as a whole perhaps only to a few generals like Foch ...
Page 69
... present , then , is what we make it , and its size is exactly that size which our hands are capable of grasping . What we make of that little point of time called the present is the test of character . CHAPTER XVI THE FUTURE IT was the ...
... present , then , is what we make it , and its size is exactly that size which our hands are capable of grasping . What we make of that little point of time called the present is the test of character . CHAPTER XVI THE FUTURE IT was the ...
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