Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.


Benjamin Franklin

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Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
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We get too soon old and too late smart.
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We get too soon old and too late smart. -Pennsylvania Dutch proverb.
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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It is too late."

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It's never too late to go out and get that feeling back.
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Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
It was too late for the truth – and too soon.
BRYNN KELLY
It is never too late to be wise.
DANIEL DEFOE
It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
JANE FONDA
Be not sick too late, nor well too soon
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The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise man is in his heart. -Benjamin Frank...
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Our toaster has two settings: too soon or too late.
ANONYMOUS
Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
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The sun is intelligent because it never rises too early, and wise because it never sets too late.
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It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be.
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It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise.
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It's never too late in life to have a genuine adventure.
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It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
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One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
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It is never too late to regain our credibility around the world.
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I just want to show the world it's never too late to get your diploma, and show kids they should...
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The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
Climate change is the environmental challenge of this generation, and it is imperative that we act b...
JOHN DELANEY
One thing that always frustrated me was that, while Benjamin Franklin's was the best-known face ...
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No one wants to know I set my alarm and get up 8, but I think it's too weird to sleep in too lat...
DAVID SPADE
I have loved badly, loved the great
Too soon, withdrawn my words too late;
And eaten in an ech...
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It's too late for me to get married before I'm famous. You never know people's intention...
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I hate going to the gym and doing it the old-fashioned way. I hate anything that's too straightf...
RIHANNA
you are not too old
and it is not too late
to dive into your increasing depths
wher...
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I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much t...
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One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searchin...
JIMMY SANGSTER
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Seneca -Benjamin Franklin.
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An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late.
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It’s always about timing. If it’s too soon, no one understands. If it’s too late, everyone’s...
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When You Live Life Too Early, You Learn Life Too Late.
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Tomorrow's life is too late. Live today.
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I am too young to be called wise and I am too old to be called young.
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In that, Blade 2 is very much like a rock concert... if it's too loud, you're too old.
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
Benjamin Franklin said the first thing you have to sell is yourself.
JOE LAUINGER
Never too late to change your relationship with somebody in your life.
ANDERSON COOPER
(Franklin) is an outstanding club, but we think we're pretty good too.
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Too late is tomorrow's life; live for today.
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I don't want to peak too early. The worry is that you never know until it's all over whether...
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It is too late for ifs, and too late for rescues,” Catelyn said. “All that remains is vengeance.
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It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
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Is it ever too late for a sequel?
GARY GOETZMAN
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
OG MANDINO
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
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People will die because we are already too late with our help. This is our warning that without imme...
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Believe me, wise men don't say 'I shall live to do that', tomorrow's life's too late, live today
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The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
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Our toaster works on either AC or DC, but not on bread. It has two settings: too soon or too late.
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It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen ye...
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And t...
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It's never too late to do anything new when it comes to music.
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There is no such thing as 'too late' in life.
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It's too little too late. He's still going to get the blame.
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Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done." Benjamin Franklin
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I am, you know, really fighting for myself and my life. And I think the message that I could give to...
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And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o'er silent seas again.
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The Gulf War was like teenage sex. We got in too soon and out too soon.
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I'm going to do the old 'plaster removal' technique and just get the pain over with in o...
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A good leader can't get too far ahead of his followers. Tacitus -Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
HANNAH COWLEY
A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
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There never was a good war, or a bad peace. -Benjamin Franklin.
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It's too late. It's too late.
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It is too late to prevent the senseless and illegal shooting that took Victoria Cooper?s life, but w...
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Hunger is the best pickle.
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One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
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Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
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He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
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If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
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Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
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Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
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Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
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One today is worth two tomorrows.
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Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow.
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The most important four words for a successful marriage: 'I'll do the dishes.'
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Sometimes when I close my eyes, I can't see.
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In God we trust; all others must pay cash.
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Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones -- with ingratitude.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tomorrow every fault is to be amended; but tomorrow never comes.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To be thrown upon one's own resources, is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Most fools think they are only ignorant.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfort...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One should eat to live, not live to eat.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervad...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Don't judge men's wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would keep your secret from an enemy,
tell it not to a friend.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN