"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."

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"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise."

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"Always keep in mind how you can best use this time that you call life."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way."

Loretta Lynn, American Musician

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"Time is an illusion of life the life of the past and the future clouds men from the true life of the present."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

Time, Illusion, Life, Present

"Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

Time, Universe, Words

"Dickens is a very underrated writer at the moment. Everyone in his time admired him but I think right now he's not spoken of enough."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

Time, Now, Right, Writer

"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

George Bernard Shaw, Irish Dramatist

Time, Poor, Poverty, Questions

"When we disclaim praise, it is only showing our desire to be praised a second time."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

Time, Desire, Praise

"Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent."

Terry Pratchett, English Author

Time, Nothing, Wrong, Years

"Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Time, Truth, Wisdom, Change

"You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time."

Dave Eggers, American Writer

Time, Compassion, Listening, Open

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"Our hours in love have wings; in absence, crutches."

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"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

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"One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this."

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"The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part."

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"Thou hast seen nothing yet."

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"The eyes those silent tongues of love."

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"I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar."

Conversation, Right, Wrong

"Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice."

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"Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it."

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"There's no taking trout with dry breeches."

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