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• The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of a great man were made by his fortune, his enemies by himself, and revenge is a much more punctual paymaster than gratitude.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gratitude, Revenge, Adversity

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.297

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• Thus, the technique of metropolitan life is unimaginable without the most punctual integration of all activities and mutual relations into a stable and impersonal time schedule.

  Georg Simmel

  Technique, Schedules, Life Is

  Georg Simmel, Kurt H. Wolff (1950). “The Sociology of Georg Simmel”, p.413, Simon and Schuster

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• I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time.

  Roland Barthes

  Games, Trying, Busy

  Roland Barthes (1990). "El discurso de un amante: fragmentos", Penguin Books

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• La puntualidad es una cualidad cuya necesidad está ligada a la cooperación social. No tiene nada que ver con la relación del alma con Dios, ni con el discernimiento místico, ni con ninguno de los asuntos que preocupan a los moralistas más elevados y espirituales.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spiritual, Soul, Quality

  Bertrand Russell (2013). “Education and the Social Order”, p.25, Routledge

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• El General exige y espera encarecidamente la debida observancia de los artículos de guerra establecidos para el gobierno del ejército, que prohíben las blasfemias, los juramentos y la embriaguez; y del mismo modo exige y espera de todos los oficiales y soldados que no estén de servicio que asistan puntualmente al servicio divino, para implorar las bendiciones del cielo sobre los medios utilizados para nuestra seguridad y defensa.

  George Washington

  Guerra, Media, Ejército

  George Washington, Thomas Francis Bayard (1775). “Specimen pages of a proposed publication of the papers of Washington, Franklin, etc”, p.14

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• Even if a farmer intends to loaf, he gets up in time to get an early start.

  E. W. Howe

  Funny, Time, Punctuality

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• Argh... I could be better with my time. I like to be punctual, but I could be better.

  Kelly Rowland

  Mi tiempo

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• Investment ideas, like women are often more exciting than punctual.

  Warren Buffett

  Ideas, Investment, Exciting

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• The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.

  Roland Barthes

  Waiting, Identity, Lovers

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• Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

  William Hazlitt

  Friendship, Breakup, Promise

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1873, Delphi Classics

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• Revenge is a debt, in the paying of which the greatest knave is honest and sincere, and, so far as he is able, punctual.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Debt, Knaves

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.124

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• Nunca dejes para mañana lo que puedes hacer pasado mañana igual de bien.

  Mark Twain

  Divertido, Vida, Sarcástico

  "Mark Twain: Recopilación de cuentos, bocetos, discursos y ensayos Vol. 1 1852-1890".

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• I can't get myself when I'm not punctual. If I'm late for an appointment, even a bit, I don't feel good for a whole day.

  Daesung

  Feel Good, Late, Feels

  Fuente: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com

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• If the maintenance of public credit, then, be truly important, the next enquiry which suggests itself is, by what means it is to be effected? The ready answer to which question is, by good faith, by a punctual performance of contracts. States, like individuals, who observe their engagements, are respected and trusted: while the reverse is the fate of those who pursue an opposite conduct.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Mean, Fate, Opposites

  Nancy Spannaus, Christopher White, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas More, Henry VIII (2015). “The Political Economy of the American Revolution”, p.346, Executive Intelligence Review

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• Si tan sólo pudiera dominar ese demonio de la procrastinación que se pasea como un león rugiente y devora todas mis buenas intenciones, me convertiría en el hombre más puntual del mundo.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Procrastination, Men, Roaring

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• People who are chronically tardy never understand the many ways in which they screw up the schedules of people who are punctual and 'normal'.

  Lauren Kate

  People, Screw Ups, Schedules

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.95, Delacorte Press

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• Cuando Mayo, con mechones trenzados de cowslip,
  camina por la tierra vestida de verde.
  Y quema en la hierba del prado el flox
  Su antorcha de fuego púrpura:
  Y cuando el puntual mayo llega
  con la hierba de los prados en su frente,
  Sabemos lo que una vez dio a nuestras vidas,
  y no puede darnos ahora.

  Bayard Taylor

  Fuego, Tierra, Morado

  Bayard Taylor (1883). "Las obras poéticas de Bayard Taylor".

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• Nunca dejes para mañana lo que puedas hacer hoy.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Inspiración, Motivación, Tiempo

  "Modales y discurso o máximas extraídas de las cartas de Lord Chesterfield a su hijo". Libro de Lord Chesterfield, 1884.

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• Unfaithfulness in the keeping of an appointment is an act of clear dishonesty. You may as well borrow a person's money as his time.

  Horace Mann

  Money, Honesty, Integrity

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 74), 1890.

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• Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, I Barón Lytton

  Men, Punctuality, Virtue

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• The future is fastidious and punctual. It keeps perfect time and arrives everywhere on the dot. In contrast, its slacker brother the past has no use for clocks or appointments. It comes and goes as it pleases in our memory, camping out wherever the hell it damn well wants to in there. Untrustworthy, prone to exaggeration, biased- you wouldn't lend it ten cents, but it *sure* can be charming and seductive when it feels like it.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Brother, Memories, Past

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• We feel bound to be punctual and conscientious with those we are indifferent about; while we can afford at any time, on the frostiest night, to be an hour after our appointment with the single gentleman who occupies an apartment in our heart's core.

  Samuel Laman Blanchard

  Heart, Night, Gentleman

  "Sketches from Life, Vol. 1-2". Book by Laman Blanchard, Wiley & Putnam, "That Good Wine Needs No Bush", 1846.

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• The superior thing ... was to be late. Lateness showed that serene contempt for the illusion we call time which is so necessary to ensure the respect of others and oneself. Only the servile are punctual.

  Rose Macaulay

  Lateness, Illusion, Punctuality

  Rose Macaulay (Dame.) (1923). “Mystery at Geneva”

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• Los nativos son muy exactos y puntuales en los límites de sus tierras, pertenecientes a tal o cual príncipe o pueblo, incluso hasta un río, arroyo, etc. Y los he conocido negociando y vendiendo entre ellos por un pequeño pedazo o cantidad de tierra; a pesar de la opinión pecaminosa entre muchos, de que los cristianos tienen derecho a las tierras de los paganos.

  Roger Williams

  Christian, Land, Rivers

  "The Book of the Indians of North America". Book by Samuel G. Drake, 1835.

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• ¡Arriba y lejos por la vida! ¡Sé veloz!
  El rey de la escarcha ata mis pies torpes,
  Canta en mis oídos, mis manos son piedras,
  Cuaja la sangre hasta los huesos de mármol,
  Tira de las cuerdas del corazón, adormece el sentido,
  y la vida se estrecha.
  Bien, en esta amplia cama yace y duerme,-
  Las estrellas puntuales velarán,-
  embalsamados por el frío purificador;
  Los vientos cantarán su vieja marcha de muertos,
  La nieve no es un sudario innoble,
  La luna tu plañidera, y la nube.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Estrellas, Reyes, Mentiras

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). "Obras completas Delphi de Ralph Waldo Emerson (Ilustradas)", p.234, Delphi Classics.

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