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Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

— Francois Rabelais

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

— Robert Herrick

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

— Malcolm X

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

— Philip James Bailey

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

— Pindar

Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

— Plutarch

The positive and negative states of being bring about action. They cause the loss of balance and of happiness. They cause the eternal revolutions - the changes that follow one upon the other. They explain why happiness cannot be achieved in time.

— Piet Mondrian

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

✗Opposing Perspectives

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

— Jules Verne

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.

— Aristotle