Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two and I know it was not the last blow that did it but all that had gone before. Jacob A. Riis
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  1. Lost Time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin

  2. How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. - David Norris

  3. Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them. - Dion Boucicault

  4. But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day. - Benjamin Disraeli

  5. Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time, ' is like saying, 'I don't want to. - Lao Tzu

More Quotes By Jacob A. Riis
  1. Oh, God! That bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

  2. The world forgets easily, too easily, what it does not like to remember.

  3. When nothing seems to help I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two and I know...

  4. Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them good or bad.

  5. Look at a stone cutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two and I know it was not the last blow that did it...

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