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"The strangeness of Time. Not in its passing, which can seem infinite, like a tunnel whose end you can't see, whose beginning you've forgotten, but in the sudden realization that something finite, has passed, and is irretrievable."
"Make use of time, let not advantage slip."
"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time."
"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
"Youth has no age."
"Study the past, if you would divine the future."
"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once."
"Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day"
"Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the only thing he can't afford to lose."
"Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper."
"For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it."
"Time is the only critic without ambition."
"Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time."
"Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live."
"It is the mark of a mean, vulgar and ignoble spirit to dwell on the thought of food before meal times or worse to dwell on it afterwards, to discuss it and wallow in the remembered pleasures of every mouthful. Those whose minds dwell before dinner on the spit, and after on the dishes, are fit only to be scullions."
"He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time."
"I never succeed in painting scenes, however beautiful, immediately upon returning from them. I must wait for a time to draw a veil over the common details."
"My dental hygienist is cute. Every time I visit, I eat a whole package of Oreo cookies while waiting in the lobby. Sometimes she has to cancel the rest of the afternoon's appointments."
