Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.
If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.
Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
We must wait until the evening to see how splendid the day had been.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished.
What is it we value? Innovation. Originality. Novelty. But most importantly...timeliness. I fear you may be too late, my confused, unfortunate, friend.
There is nothing permanent except change.
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
To be interested in the changing seasons is a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.
Years, following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.
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