All that really belongs to us is time; even he who has nothing else has that.

—Baltasar Gracián

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Baltasar Gracián y Morales (Spanish: [baltaˈsaɾ ɣɾaˈθjan]; 8 January 1601 – 6 December 1658), better known as Baltasar Gracián, was a Spanish Jesuit priest and Baroque prose writer and philosopher. He was born in Belmonte, near Calatayud (Aragón). His writings were lauded by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche.

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The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

—Baltasar Gracián

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.

—Baltasar Gracián

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.

—Baltasar Gracián

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.

—Baltasar Gracián

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

—Baltasar Gracián

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The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves, and then we shall save our country.

—Abraham Lincoln

Time would not change what I was feeling—or not feeling. I'd had time, and though the ache from his desertion hadn't disappeared, it was decreasing. My future was blurry, yes, but I was beginning to imagine a future when I would no longer miss him at all.

—Tammara Webber in Easy

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Most couples get married because it's time, not because they're in love. They might have money issues, parental pressure, or they're simply tired of being alone—so they pick Mr. Good Enough and tie the knot.

—H.M. Ward in The Wedding Contract

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My wife and I tried two to three times in the last forty years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable that we had to stop.

—Winston Churchill

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The days are long, but the years are short.

—Gretchen Rubin

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