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Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that’s the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin Poor Richard’s Almanack · 1732-1758

Quotes

“Remember that Time is Money.”

Benjamin Franklin · Advice to a Young Tradesman, 1748 · Primary source

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Experience, 1844 · Primary source

“The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Jack London · Jack London’s Tales of Adventure, 1906 · Secondary source

“I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.”

Ian Fleming · You Only Live Twice, 1964 · Primary source

“Truth was the only daughter of Time.”

Leonardo da Vinci · The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, 1888 · Primary source

“If you have time don’t wait for time.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Lost time is never found again.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“One today is worth two tomorrows.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Time enough always proves little enough.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Time is an herb that cures all diseases.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Up, sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“You may delay, but time will not.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?”

Ernest Hemingway · The Old Man and the Sea, 1952 · Primary source

“Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Prudence, 1841 · Primary source

“In comparing the number of good books with the shortness of life, many might well be read by proxy, if we had good proxies.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · Books, 1870 · Primary source

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

Henry David Thoreau · Walden, 1849 · Primary source

“Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it. He who doesn’t, pays it.”

Albert Einstein · No reliable source

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson · No reliable source

Works

Benjamin Franklin · 1758
The Way to Wealth

A practical essay on building financial security through industry, frugality, careful use of time, saving, and avoidance of unnecessary debt.

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