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  Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  Confucius

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  May, Matter, Kind

  Letter of to his Minister of the Interior on the Poor Laws. Pub. in The Press, February 1, 1868.

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• I count my time by times that I meet thee;
  These are my yesterdays, my morrows, noons,
  And nights, these are my old moons and my new moons.
  Slow fly the hours, fast the hours flee,
  If thou art far from or art near to me:
  If thou art far, the bird's tunes are no tunes;
  If thou art near, the wintry days are Junes.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Art, Moon, Night

  RICHARD WATSON GILDER (1885). “LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS,”

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• Thou shoreless flood, which in thy ebb and flow claspest the limits of mortality.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Ebb And Flow, Limits, Mortality

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.292

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• Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Inspirational, Patriotic, Hard Work

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.86, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time

  Leo Kennedy

  Procrastination, Way, Late

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• Nae man can tether time or tide.

  Robert Burns

  Men, Tides

  'Tam o' Shanter' (1791) l. 67

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• Time is neither friend nor enemy it's just a measurement.

  Michael Dolan

  Enemy, Measurement

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• Time has laid his hand
  Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
  But as a harper lays his open palm
  Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Heart, Hands, Vibrations

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861). “The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, including his translations and notes”, p.203

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• Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.

  Celine Dion

  I Love You, Letting Go, Popular Song

  Song: My Heart Will Go On

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• Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Inspiration, Humor

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• And when is there time to remember, to sift, to weigh, to estimate, to total?

  Tillie Olsen

  Time Management, Remember

  Tillie Olsen (1995). “Tell Me a Riddle”, p.278, Rutgers University Press

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• To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.

  George Santayana

  Love, Positive, Happiness

  George Santayana (2009). “The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress”, p.1053, The Floating Press

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• Time is the school in which we learn, time is the fire in which we burn.

  Delmore Schwartz

  New Year, School, Fire

  "For Rhoda" l. 40 (1938)

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• If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

  William Shakespeare

  Future, Knowledge, Looks

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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• The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Running, Long

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.28, Graphic Arts Books

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• It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Life, Writing, Butterfly

  Vita Sackville-West, Mary Ann Caws (2003). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.125, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Time flies on restless pinions - constant never.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Restless, Constant, Time Flies

  Friedrich Schiller (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)”, p.304, Delphi Classics

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• A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

  J. B. Priestley

  Travel, Holiday, People

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• What Time Is It? You Mean Now?

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Mean, Player

  "What Time Is It? You Mean Now?". Book by Yogi Berra, 2001.

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• Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

  Henry James

  Beautiful, Summer, Two

  Quoted in Edith Wharton, A Backward Glance (1934)

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• Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.

  Dion Boucicault

  Life, Inspiring, Death

  'London Assurance' (1841) act 2, sc. 1.

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• Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

  Robert Breault

  Regret, Wasting Time, Wasted Time

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• Time makes more converts than reason.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Motivation, Common Sense

  Thomas Paine, John P. Kaminski (2002). “Citizen Paine: Thomas Paine's Thoughts on Man, Government, Society, and Religion”, p.228, Rowman & Littlefield

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