<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393428" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Proverbs Of Confucius</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Threefold is the march of time<br> While the future slow advances,<br> Like a dart the present glances,<br>Silent stands the past sublime.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No impatience e'er can speed him<br> On his course if he delay;<br>No alarm, no doubts impede him<br> If he keep his onward way;<br>No regrets, no magic numbers<br>Wake the tranced one from his slumbers.<br>Wouldst thou wisely and with pleasure,<br>Pass the days of life's short measure,<br>From the slow one counsel take,<br>But a tool of him ne'er make;<br>Ne'er as friend the swift one know,<br>Nor the constant one as foe!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> II.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Threefold is the form of space:<br>Length, with ever restless motion,<br>Seeks eternity's wide ocean;<br>Breadth with boundless sway extends;<br>Depth to unknown realms descends.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All as types to thee are given;<br>Thou must onward strive for heaven,<br>Never still or weary be<br>Would'st thou perfect glory see;<br>Far must thy researches go.<br>Wouldst thou learn the world to know;<br>Thou must tempt the dark abyss<br>Wouldst thou prove what Being is.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Naught but firmness gains the prize,--<br>Naught but fulness makes us wise,--<br>Buried deep, truth ever lies!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Friedrich+Schiller">Friedrich Schiller</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=393428" data-title="The Proverbs Of Confucius de Friedrich Schiller" data-description="Threefold is the march of time While the future slow advances, Like a dart the present glances, Silent stands the past sublime. No impatience e'er can speed him On his course if he delay; No alarm, no doubts impede him If he keep his onward w..."></div> </div> </div>

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