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  I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

  Albert Einstein

  Happiness, Clever, Memories

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.24, St. Martin's Press

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• The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Funny, Witty, Motivation

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  Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

  Dorothea Lange

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Old Time, that greatest and longest established spinner of all!... his factory is a secret place, his work is noiseless, and his Hands are mutes.

  Charles Dickens

  Secret Places, Hands, Age

  Charles Dickens (1854). “Household Words: A weekly Journal, Volume 9”, p.290, Bradbury and Evans, printers

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• Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Inspirational, Moving On, Spiritual

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• Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Death, Islamic, World

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• Time will run back and fetch the Age of Gold.

  John Milton

  Running, Age, Gold

  'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity: The Hymn' (1645) st. 14

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• Time, that aged nurse,
  Rocked me to patience.

  John Keats

  Nurse

  John Keats, Richard Monckton Milnes Baron Houghton (1855). “The Poetical Works of John Keats”, p.82

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• Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Birthday, Death, Taxation

  Gone with theWind pt. 4, ch. 38 (1936) See Benjamin Franklin 41; Proverbs 63

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• Our torments also may in length of time Become our Elements.

  John Milton

  Elements, May, Length

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 2, l. l. 274

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• Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends.

  William Shakespeare

  Procrastination, Delay, Self Help

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1785). “The dramatick writings of Will. Shakspere,: with the notes of all the various commentators; printed complete from the best editions of Sam. Johnson and Geo. Steevens”

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• Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Morning, Spring, Fall

  Death of the Heart (1938) pt. 2, ch. 1

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• I trust in nature for the stable laws of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant and autumn garner to the end of time.

  Robert Browning

  Trust, Spring, Autumn

  Robert Browning, John Woolford, Daniel Karlin (1991). “The Poems of Browning: 1841-1846”, p.192, Pearson Education

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• Learning how to operate a soul figures to take time.

  Timothy Leary

  Soul, Gardening, Spirituality

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• What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!

  James Russell Lowell

  Book, Reading, Security

  "Literary Essays, vol. I". Book by James Russell Lowell, 1864-1890.

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• Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Funny, Elderly, Long

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• The times they are a-changing.

  Bob Dylan

  1964 Title of song.

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• A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

  Jean Rostand

  Hard Work, Science, Men

  1939 'Pense es d'un Biologiste', collected inThe Substance of Man (translated by Irma Brandeis,1962).

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• A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is.

  Bertrand Russell

  Truth, Thinking, Tyrants

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.35, Bertrand Russell

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• By the time we've made it, we've had it.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Time Management, Made, Made It

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• Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science.

  Blaise Pascal

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  c.1654-1662 Pense es, no.23.

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• But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Intelligent, Stubborn, Way

  "Early Poems".

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• So little time and so little to do.

  Oscar Levant

  Funny, Work, Littles

  Oscar Levant (1968). “The unimportance of being Oscar”

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• Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we'll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you? They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.

  Samuel Beckett

  Night, Light, Giving

  Waiting for Godot act 2 (1952)

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• But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.

  Andrew Marvell

  Witty, Humorous, Mistress

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 21 (1681)

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