"Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time."
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"A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time."
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"As for old age, embrace and love it. It abounds with pleasure if you know how to use it. The gradually declining years are among the sweetest in a man's life, and I maintain that, even when they have reached the extreme limit, they have their pleasure still."
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"Whatever begins, also ends."
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"The swiftness of time is infinite, as is still more evident when we look back on the past."
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"Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors."
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"Nemo tam divos habuit faventes, Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri. Nobody has ever found the gods so much his friends that he can promise himself another day."
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"Life is divided into three periods: that which has been, that which is, that which will be. Of these the present is short, the future is doubtful, the past is certain."
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"The only great spirit of our time."
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"The only fault's with time; All men become good creatures: but so slow!"
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"Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?"
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"In God's good time, Which does not always fall on Saturday When the world looks for wages."
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"They are perfect; how else?-they shall never change: We are faulty; why not?-we have time in store."
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"Time'swheelsrunsbackor stops: Potterand clayendure."
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"Time is a kindly God."
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"Great Time makes all things dim."
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"I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held."
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"The footpath down to the well is healed."
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"Not one But twenty-four self-giving-hours Every day I have For my use."
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"Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time."
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