"How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"
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"Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!"
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"Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past."
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"No doubt the artist is the child of his time; but woe to him if he is also its disciple, or even its favorite."
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"Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you."
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"Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."
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"All that time is lost which might be better employed."
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"Make measurable progress in reasonable time."
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"It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities."
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"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time."
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"Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last."
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"The time for your labor has been granted."
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"There's never enough time to do it right, but there's always enough time to do it over."
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"Time, that aged nurse, Rocked me to patience."
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"Kindness goes a long ways lots of times when it ought to stay at home."
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"In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India-I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving-it is not in the result of loving."
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"Finance, like time, devours its own children."
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"No hand can make the clock strike for me the hours that are passed."
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"What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now."
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"I know not what you believe of God, but I believe He gave yearnings and longings to be filled, and that He did not mean all our time should be devoted to feeding and clothing the body"
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