Quote by Benjamin Franklin
If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be t

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality. – Benjamin Franklin

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Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes – ah, they have all the necessary leisure. – Aldous Huxley

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. – George Bernard Shaw

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Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade! – Tony Robbins

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As from a height, with rapt prophetic eyes,
And heart profoundly stirred;
And weep, and feel the fullness of the past,
The years that are not more. – Matthew Arnold

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