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"Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly."

T. S. Eliot on Time

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  • "Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present."

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  • "The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."

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  • "Lost time is never found again."

    Benjamin Franklin on Time

  • "Patience and time do more than strength or passion."

    Jean de La Fontaine on Time

  • "The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."

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More quotes by T. S. Eliot

  • "I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."

  • "Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same."

  • "All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords."

  • "Business today consists in persuading crowds."

  • "The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."

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