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Too Late
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“I believe that everything has its own season, and each hour its law. If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel — nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.”
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“... for most of us the space between 'dreaming on things to come' and 'it is too late, it is all over' is too tiny to enter.”
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“The truth invariably arrives several years after you need it.”
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“Vain favor! coming, like most other favors long deferred and often wished for, too late!”
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“It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise.”
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“Five minutes — Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my lifetime!”
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“It must be the ultimate punishment, don't you think, to finally gain wisdom, only to realize that the consequences of your actions are irrevocable?”
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“It's only too late if you don't start now.”
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“... now that Fate / Has brought me what so long, I so desired, / It is too late, / I am too tired.”
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“... for love, or repentance, or amendment, there are no such words as 'too late.'”
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“Ah! 'All things come to those who wait' — / ... / They come, but often come too late!”
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“It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late — Life! Life!”
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“About the two most cruel words in the English language are too late ...”
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“Carve not upon a stone when I go hence, / The praises which remorseful mourners give / To buried wives — a tardy recompense — / But speak them while I live.”
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“It's never too late to begin a life or a book.”
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“It's better to be boldly decisive and risk being wrong than to agonize at length and be right too late.”
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“Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.”