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"To take what there is in life and use it, without waiting forever in vain for the preconceived, to dig deep into the actual and get something out of that; this, doubtless, is the right way to live."
"Time will take your money, but money won't buy time."
"I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding."
"When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die."
"I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time."
"It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women."
"January gray is here, like a sexton by her grave; February bears the bier, march with grief doth howl and rave, and April weeps -- but, O ye hours! Follow with May's fairest flowers."
"Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday's time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time."
"You left me boundaries of pain Capacious as the sea, Between eternity and time, Your consciousness and me."
"Modern man thinks he loses something - time - when he does not do things quickly. Yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains, except kill it."
"It's exhilarating to be alive in a time of awakening consciousness; it can also be confusing, disorienting, and painful."
"Time is the most precious element of human existence. The successful person knows how to put energy into time and how to draw success from time."
"I could have spoken from Rhode Island where I have been staying ... But I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson, and of Wilson, my words would better convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to make and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course until the orders of the federal court at Little Rock can be executed without unlawful interference." (On sending troops to enforce integration in Little Rock AR High School)"
"time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present."
"Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
"There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come."
"The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work."
"Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds."
"How silent, how spacious, what room for all, yet without place to insert an atom--in graceful succession, in equal fullness, in balanced beauty, the dance of the hours goes forward still. Like an odor of incense, like a strain of music, like a sleep, it is inexact and boundless. It will not be dissected, nor unraveled, nor shown."
"Waste is worse than loss. The time is coming when every person who lays claim to ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly. The scope of thrift is limitless."
