Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
You may delay, but time will not.
We always have time enough, if we will but use it aright.
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.
The long time to come when I shall not exist has more effect on me than this short present time, which nevertheless seems endless.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
To help a friend in need is easy, but to give him your time is not always opportune.
Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine.
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone.
No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time.
Time takes away the grief of men.
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.
To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.
There are no secrets that time does not reveal.
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