Isaac Pitman quotes

“Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind”
-- Isaac Pitman

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“I have no intention of becoming a shorthand author.”
-- Isaac Pitman

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“The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day.”

“Delay not to seize the hour!”

“Procrastination is also a subtle act of corruption – it corrupts valuable time”

“For Yesterday was once To-morrow.”

Source : Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, Aulus Persius Flaccus, John Dryden (1693). “The Satires, Translated Into English Verse by J. Dryden ... Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus Made English by Mr. Dryden”

“You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.”

“If a man will comprehend the richness and variety of the universe, and inspire his mind with a due measure of wonder and awe, he must contemplate the human intellect not only on its heights of genius but in its abysses of ineptitude...”

Source : Marcus Manilius, A. E. Housman (2011). “Astronomicon”, p.19, Cambridge University Press

“Attachment to the Divine leads to detachment from the mind. This leads to the realization that the nature of the Seer and the Divine are the same.”

“The minds of stone lovers had colonised stones as lichens clung to them with golden or grey-green florid stains. The human world of stones is caught in organic metaphors like flies in amber. Words came from flesh and hair and plants. Reniform, mammilated, botryoidal, dendrite, haematite. Carnelian is from carnal, from flesh. Serpentine and lizardite are stone reptiles ; phyllite is leafy-green.”

“Mark Twain once said that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”

“Mark-to-market accounting is like crack. Don't do it.”