The celestial machine is to be likened not to a divine organism but rather to a clockwork.
—Johannes Kepler, 1605
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Time’s ruins build eternity’s mansions.
—James Joyce, 1922There is no work of human hands which time does not wear away and reduce to dust.
—Marcus Tullius Cicero, 46 BCFor everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven.
—Book of Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way.
—Myrtle Reed, 1910