"That double-headed monster of damnation and salvation--Time."
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"Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions; the surest poison is time. This cup which nature puts to our lips, has a wonderful virtue, surpassing that of any other draught. It opens the senses, adds power, fills us with exalted dreams, which we call hope, love, ambition, science; especially it creates a craving for larger draughts of itself."
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"The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty."
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"Do nothing secretly; for Time sees and hears all things, and discloses all."
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"Remember, you can earn more money, but when time is spent it is gone forever."
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"There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time."
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"Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true."
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"The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time."
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"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do."
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"Don't spend most of your time on the voices that don't count, voices that are going to add too little worth to your future. Don't waste time on the shallow and the silly. Tune those voices out and tune in voices that are going to add something to your life"
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"Serene, I fold my hands and wait, Nor care for wind, nor tide, nor sea; I rave no more 'gainst time or fate, For lo! my own shall come to me."
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"Truth uttered before its time is dangerous."
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"I'd thought of myself as a great big motion picture star from the time I was 6."
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"Most people don't remember names, for the simple reason that they don't take the time and energy necessary to concentrate and repeat and fix names indelibly in their minds. They make excuses for themselves; they are too busy."
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"Life is now. There was never a time when your life was not now, nor will there ever be."
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"Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time."
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"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."
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"Time, waxing old, doth all things purify."
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"Time And health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."
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"We are more curious about the meaning of dreams than about things we see when awake."
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