"Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away."

Time, Opportunity

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"Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away."

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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."

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"Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."

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