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• There is no such word as 'too late,' in the wide world — nay, not in the universe. What! shall we, whose atom of time is but a fragment out of an ever-present eternity — shall we, so long as we live, or even at our life's ending, dare to cry out to the Eternal One, 'It is too late!'

  Dinah

  Long, Atoms, World

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• I have loved badly, loved the great Too soon, withdrawn my words too late; And eaten in an echoing hall Alone and from a chipped plate The words that I withdrew too late.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Regret, All Alone, Plates

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• Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Thinking, Clouds

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• Led by long years to my last hours, too late, O world, I know your joys for what they are. You promise a peace which is not yours to give and the repose that dies before it is born. The years of fear and shame to which Heaven now set a term, renew nothing in me but the old sweet error in which, living overlong a man kills his soul with no gain to his body. I say and I know having put it to the proof, that he has the better part in Heaven whose death falls nearest his birth.

  Michelangelo

  Death, Sweet, Fall

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• Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

  Laurence Sterne

  Sympathy, Affliction, Consolation

  Laurence Sterne (1849). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: Containing The Life and Opinions of Tristan Shandy ... [etc.] ; with a Life of the Author Written by Himself”, p.98

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• Let no young man delay the study of philosophy, and let no old man become weary of it; for it is never too early nor too late to care for the well-being of the soul.

  Epicurus

  Philosophy, Men, Soul

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• And what I don't understand I grasp it only when it's too late.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Understanding, Late

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• It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things. It’s getting too late to not be brave, to not live my life fully, to not try to be an artist. Trivial things like how nice your hotel room is, or if you have to be naked for a while, they fade away.

  Helen Hunt

  Nice, Artist, Brave

  "Helen Hunt Talks Baring All in ‘The Sessions’: 'It’s getting too late in my life to care about the small things'". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. September 10, 2012.

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• I think it's never too late to learn - or it's a lesson that's good to continue learning - that you need to treat everyone on a set with respect.

  Alison Brie

  Thinking, Needs, Lessons

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

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• It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intentions.

  Carmelo Anthony

  People, Married, Intention

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

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• It is not yet too late for the Indian people to decide on rapid, ordered progress. I can assure them that the British people are as determined upon self-government for India as they are themselves.

  Stafford Cripps

  Government, Self, People

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• I never learned to ride a bicycle, and it is too late now. I never learned to drive. I never learned to swim.

  Marlene Dumas

  Swim, Late, Bicycle

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• I'm on the list that I thought I'd never be on. I'm not sitting here thinking, 'God, I might get this part' or 'is it too late for me to play Hamlet?' It's really about: who do I get to work with? There's so many people on that list.

  Joel Edgerton

  Thinking, Play, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have to have faith that we're going to succeed in transforming where we get our energy from. The big worry is whether or not we're going to do it before it's too late. And I think nobody knows the answer to that.

  Josh Fox

  Thinking, Worry, Answers

  "Living on 'Gasland:' Q&A with Documentary Filmmaker Josh Fox". Interview with Denise Chow, www.nbcnews.com. July 8, 2013.

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• My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.

  Brendan Gleeson

  Hands, Play, Grandfather

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

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• It may be too late for West Virginia to save itself from the ravages of Big Coal. But it's not too late for America.

  Jeff Goodell

  Virginia, America, Coal

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• Nokia and Research in Motion needed a modern operating system. They could have bought Palm or Android before Google did, but they didn't. Today, it's probably too late, and at the time they would have been criticized for overpaying, but as they say - shift happens.

  Marc Andreessen

  Google, Research, Today

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• Too much, too little, too late, to ever try again. Too much, too little, too late, let's end it being friends.

  Johnny Mathis

  Trying, Littles, Too Much

  Song: Too Much, Too Little, Too Late

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• The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Nature, Moon, Voice

  "Ulysses" l. 55 (1842)

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• I've learned that love is not possessive and I've learned that love won't wait. Now I've learned that love needs expression, but I learned too late.

  Michael Jackson

  Love, Expression, Waiting

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• Unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing.

  John Milton

  Years, Wings, Age

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 9, l. 44

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• People create success in their lives by focusing on today. It may sound trite, but today is the only time you have. It's too late for yesterday. And you can't depend on tomorrow. That's why today matters. Most of the time we miss that.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Yesterday, People

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• Humility accepts that God places us in the right place at every single moment, not a moment to soon and not a moment too late.

  Frederick Lenz

  Single Mom, Humility, Buddhism

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• It's never too late to move to a good place to try to improve your child's outcomes in adulthood.

  Gwen Ifill

  Children, Moving, Trying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• And my father left me a legacy of his handwriting through letters and a notebook. In the last two years of his life, when he was sick, he filled a notebook with his thoughts about me… There are times when I want to trade all those years that I was too busy to sit with my dad and chat with him, and trade all those years for one hug. But too late. But that's when I take out his letters and I read them, and the paper that touched his hand is in mine, and I feel connected to him.

  Lakshmi Pratury

  Notebook, Dad, Father

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