Leonardo da Vinci Quotes About Time
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We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.
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Truth was the only daughter of Time.
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In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
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I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look upon the murder of men.
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O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away.
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Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
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O time! swift devourer of all created things!
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As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is.
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I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental.
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Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present.
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O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain.
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