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1 " Time is the mercy of Eternity without Time's swiftness/ Which is the swiftest of all things: all were eternal torment. "
2 " Gossip is the swiftest bird alive," Amonos said darkly." Yes," said E'sinea, turning to view his surroundings. " I should like one day to catch Gossip and wring its neck. "
3 " He deftly dealt his swiftest blow--I fell further than, I was meant to go. "
― Lang Leav , Lullabies
4 " I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot. I say to my friend, Suppose we try who will get [to Fitchburg from Concord] first. The distance is thirty miles; the fare ninety cents ... Well, I start now on foot, and get there before night; I have travelled at that rate by the week together. You will in the meanwhile have earned your fare, and arrive there some time tomorrow, or possibly this evening, if you are lucky enough to get a job in season. Instead of going to Fitchburg, you will be working here the greater part of the day. And so, if the railroad reached round the world, I think that I should keep ahead of you; and as for seeing the country and getting experience of that kind, I should have to cut your acquaintance altogether. "
― Henry David Thoreau , Walden
5 " Never pupil was more humble, never pupil more obedient; thinking nothing of himself or of anything he had done or could do, his path was open to the swiftest and highest growth. It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing. The next point will be, whether he is growing at the ratio given him. The key to the whole thing is _obedience_, and nothing else. "
― George MacDonald , A Daughter's Devotion
6 " Love seems the swiftest but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. "
