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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.






I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.






We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.






Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.






One always has time enough, if one will apply it well.






Lost time is never found again.






Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.






Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.






Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.






There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.






Nothing great 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 the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.






Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.






Time spent with cats is never wasted.






To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.






Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.






Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.






We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass.






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






Time is money.






All things are subject to interpretation whichever interpretation prevails at a given time is a function of power and not truth.






Light had its allotted time; but timeless and infinite is the reign of the night − the duration of sleep eternal.
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Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.






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