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For tyme ylost may nought recovered be.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

Life is divided into three terms — that which was, which is, and which will be.

— William Wordsworth

Lost time is never found again.

— Benjamin Franklin

You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.

— Heraclitus

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

— C. S. Lewis

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

— Rabindranath Tagore

It's always tea-time.

— Lewis Carroll

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

— Bertrand Russell

Sweet childish days, that were as long as twenty days are now.

— William Wordsworth

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Time flies, never to be recalled.

— Virgil

Forever is composed of nows.

— Emily Dickinson

The years teach much which the days never know.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

— Rabindranath Tagore

Time and tide wait for no man.

— Geoffrey Chaucer

The hurrier I go, the behinder I get.

— Lewis Carroll

No man ever steps in the same river twice.

— Heraclitus

Time is a created thing. To say I don't have time is like saying I don't want to.

— Lao Tzu

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

— Seneca

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

— Leo Tolstoy

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.

— Dalai Lama

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

— Leonardo da Vinci

That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet.

— Emily Dickinson

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