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"So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born."
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"Life is defined by time and seasons."
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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
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"A realization that even if you had discovered the future, it really didn't change how you lived in the present. They were truth, but they weren't all the truth."
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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
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"Hurry up, before there's no more night left."
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"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."
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"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."
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"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."
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"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
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"Much rain wears the marble."
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"Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors."
Conscience
"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth."
Earth
"Every decision you make is a mistake."
Mistake
"Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue."
Virtue
"We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives."
Act
"When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels."
Life
"Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away."
Man
"The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty."
Power
"The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature."
Nature
"We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared."
Independence
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