"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."
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"The holy time is quiet as a nun Breathless with adoration."
"Time is Galleons, little brother."
"Tempus fugit (time flies)."
"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope."
"You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think."
"The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed."
"Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart."
"You can never plan the future by the past."
"A boy's story is the best that is ever told."
"There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing."
"It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
"I passionately hate the idea of being with it; I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time."
"No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure."
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."
"For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
"The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet."
"Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face."
"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."