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Opportunity: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

There is an hour in each man's life appointed To make his happiness, if then he seize it.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Custom of the Country. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 85.

This could but have happened once, And we missed it, lost it forever.— ROBERT BROWNING — Youth and Art.

Nostra sine auxilio fugiunt bona, Carpite florem. Our advantages fly away without aid. Pluck the flower.— OVID — Ars Amatoria. III. 79.

Occasio ægre offertur, facile amittitur. A good opportunity is seldom presented, and is easily lost.— SYRUS — Maxims.

L'occasion de faire du mal se trouve cent fois par jour, et celle de faire du bien une fois dans l'année. The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.— VOLTAIRE — Zadig.

Mes jours s'en sont allez errant. My days are gone a-wandering.— VILLON — Grand Testament.

Der den Augenblick ergreift, Das ist der rechte Mann. Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man.— GOETHE — Faust. I. 4. 494.

Pflücke Rosen, weil sie blühn, Morgen ist nicht heut! Keine Stunde lass entfliehn, Morgen ist nicht heut. Gather roses while they bloom, To-morrow is yet far away. Moments lost have no room In to-morrow or to-day.— GLEIM — Benutzung der Zeit.