"Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around."
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"Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."
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"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
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"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
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"Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life."
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"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am."
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"Nothing fruitful ever comes when plants are forced to flower in the wrong season."
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"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."
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"A study of economics usually reveals that the best time to buy anything is last year."
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"I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management."
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"Synchronicity is God sending us messages anonymously."
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"The famous soft watches are nothing else than the tender, extravagant, solitary, paranoic-critical camembert oftime and space."
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"And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants to spoil something for you, why something is ugly, demand proofs from it, test it, and you will find it perhaps bewildered and embarrassed, perhaps also protesting. But don't give in, insist on arguments, and act in this way, attentive and persistent, every single time, and the day will come when, instead of being a destroyer, it will become one of your best workers-perhaps the most intelligent of all the ones that are building your life."
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"The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time"
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"Learn the past, watch the present, and create the future."
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"Americans are incredibly inpatient. Someone once said that the shortest period of time in America is the time between when the light turns green and when you hear the first horn honk."
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"The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure."
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"Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens."
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"To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
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"For time is the longest distance between two places."
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