"CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding him what a lot of time remains to him."

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The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow