271 Quotes About Too-late

  • Author Ovid
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    Face troubles from their birth, for 'tis too late to cure When long delay has given the evil strength. Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow He'll be less ready who's not ready now.

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  • Author Alexander Pope
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    When we are young, we are slavishly employed in procuring something whereby we may live comfortably when we grow old; and when we are old, we perceive it is too late to live as we proposed.

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  • Author Henri Poincare
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    It is a misfortune for a science to be born too late when the means of observation have become too perfect. That is what is happening at this moment with respect to physical chemistry; the founders are hampered in their general grasp by third and fourth decimal places.

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  • Author Jodi Picoult
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    There is no cosmic scale on which you can weigh your actions; you learn too late what choices ruin the fragile balance.

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  • Author Jodi Picoult
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    Like Connor, Alex protected me -and he was the only person I let close enough to do it. Like Connor, Alex could finish my sentences before I did. But unlike Connor, for whom I had ultimately come too late, I was just in time to take care of Alex.

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