Quotes with not-so-great

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  • William Shakespeare Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Lucille S. Harper Time is a great healer, but a poor beautician.
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru Time is not measured by the passing of years, but by what one does, what one feels and what one achieves.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Carl Sandburg Time is the coin of your life. You spend it. Do not allow others to spend it for you.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Pericles Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.
    Pericles
     
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  • Peter F. Drucker Time is the scarcest resource of the manager; If it is not managed, nothing else can be managed
    Peter F. Drucker
    American management consultant and writer (1909 - 2005)
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  • Henry van Dyke Time is Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Meister Eckhart Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.
    Meister Eckhart
    German mystic (1260 - 1328)
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  • John Lennon Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Ralph Hodgson Time, you old gypsy man, will you not stay, put up your caravan just for one day?
    Ralph Hodgson
     
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Billy Collins To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • George Orwell To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armor, the apostles of the martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when the time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Conrad To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Alfred A. Montapert To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!
    Alfred A. Montapert
    American writer
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  • Anatole France To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • Vauvenargues To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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