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Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;
Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

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— Omar Khayyam

Source: The Rubaiyat - IX - 1120

Time does not change us. It just unfolds us.

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— Max Frisch

Yesterday is a canceled check; tomorrow is a promissory note; today is the only cash you have; so spend it wisely.

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— Kim Lyons

Little drops of water, little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean, and the pleasant land.
So the little minutes, humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages of eternity.

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— Julia Carney

We all have our time machines. Some take us back, they’re called memories. Some take us forward, they’re called dreams.

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— Jeremy Irons

One moment is worth more than a thousand gold pieces.

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— Korean Proverb

A man who dares waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

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— Charles Darwin

Time discovers truth.

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— Seneca

Time meanwhile flies, never to return.

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— Virgil

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die… Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

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— A. A. Milne

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

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— Jim Bishop

What we call our future is the shadow which our past throws in front of us

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— Marcel Proust

All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

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— Baltasar Gracian

We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.

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— John F. Kennedy

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between
Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours,
each set with sixty diamond minutes
No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

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— Horace Mann

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

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— Leonardo da Vinci

Time is free, but it’s priceless. You can’t own it, but you can use it. You can’t keep it, but you can spend it. Once you’ve lost it you can never get it back.

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— Harvey Mackay

Time! the corrector when our judgments err.

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— Lord Byron

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It’s passing, yet I’m the one who’s doing all the moving.

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— Martin Amis

You may delay, but time will not.

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— Benjamin Franklin

Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.

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— William Faulkner

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

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— John Archibald Wheeler

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

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— Mark Twain

All through the night time clock talked to clock
In the captain’s cabin, tock tock tock
One ticked fast and one ticked slow,
And Time went over them a hundred years ago.

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— Kenneth Slessor

Time is but the stream I go a -fishin in.

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— Henry David Thoreau

A single day is enough to make us a little larger.

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— Paul Klee

Time, the cradle of hope…. Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.

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— Charles Caleb Colton

Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend.

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— Theophrastus

Time is the image of eternity.

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— Diogenes Laertius

Time is a brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new… but who can understand and measure its sharp breath, its mystery and its design?

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— Paracelsus