"All my possessions for a moment of time."
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"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
"The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity."
"But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day."
"With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now."
"It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down."
"You've got a lot pulling at your time already - which may be the best reason to start cultivating your green thumb."
"To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time."
"You can fool too many of the people too much of the time."
"It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men."
"If you want work well done, select a busy man - the other kind has no time."
"Leisure is the time for doing something useful."
"Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance"
"Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom."
"The moment is freedom. — I couldn’t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them."
"Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time."
"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
"Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing."
"The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time."
"When you were a tadpole and I was a fish In the Paleozoic time."