Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day is not a waste of time.
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Hand-picked Time and patience quotes quotes with clean attributions and practical context. Includes lines from John Lubbock and related voices.
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Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Your kids require you most of all to love them for who they are, not to spend your whole time trying to correct them.
Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
You may delay, but time will not.
Lost time is never found again.
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
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Another line lands differently: the pace of nature: her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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