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“Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.”
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- Source:
- Meditations. iv. 43.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 6f9c39d607e296d814f3b5ba37199876b4857eb6b7a149718d17bb3295c394aa
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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