Benjamin Franklin Quotes About Time
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You may delay, but time will not.
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Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
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Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.
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Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance
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The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything.
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Lost time is never found again.
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Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.
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Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day.
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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
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Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
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If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it.
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You made delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.
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If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, “the greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity.
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At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
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An old young man, will be a young old man.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour.
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One today is worth two tomorrows. Lost time is never found again. Time is money. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff that life is made of. You may delay, but time will not.
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Leisure is the time for doing something useful.
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Time is money.
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A little neglect may breed great mischief. ... For want of a nail, the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe, the horse was lost; for want of a horse, the battle was lost; for want of the battle, the war was lost.
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If you wouldn't live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life.
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Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
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Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.
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Many foxes grow gray but few grow good.
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He that rises late must trot all day.
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There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
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Benjamin Franklin
- Born: January 17, 1706
- Died: April 17, 1790
- Occupation: Founding Father of the United States