Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now h...igh time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is, the Science of Nature has been already too long made only a work of the brain and the fancy: It is now high time tha...t it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... it is high time that the women of Republican America should know how much the laws that govern them are like the slave laws of... the South ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a uniform exercise of kindness to prisoners on our part has been returned by as uniform severity on the part of our enemies, ...you must excuse me for saying it is high time, by other lessons, to teach respect to the dictates of humanity; in such a case, retaliation becomes an act of benevolence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself in...voluntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is high time we realized that the havoc wrought in human life and ideals by a technological revolution and too long ignored has... caught up with us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A lunatic may be "soothed,"... for a time, but in the end, he is very apt to become obstreperous. His cunning, too, is proverbial,... and great.... When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Possess the spirit of independence. The Americans do, and why should not you? Possess the spirit of men, bold and enterprising, fe...arless and undaunted. Sue for your rights and privileges. Know the reason that you cannot attain them. Weary them with your importunities. You can but die, if you make the attempt; we shall certainly die if you do not. The Americans have practised nothing but head-work these 200 years, and we have done their drudgery. And is it not high time for us to imitate their examples, and practise head-work too, and keep what we have got, and get what we can?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »