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Quote:Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.[Benjamin Franklin]

Quote:We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.[Aristotle]

Quote:I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.[J.R.R. Tolkien]

Quote:Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? [Benjamin Franklin]



Definitions of: dial

Definition: An instrument, formerly much used for showing the time of day from the shadow of a style or gnomon on a graduated arc or surface; esp., a sundial; but there are lunar and astral dials. The style or gnomon is usually parallel to the earth's axis, but the dial plate may be either horizontal or vertical.

Definition: The graduated face of a timepiece, on which the time of day is shown by pointers or hands.

Definition: A miner's compass.

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