Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
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Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.
Time is what we want most, but... what we use worst.
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
How much time he saves who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.
Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am
speaking is already far from me.
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Time flies and draws us with it. The moment in which I am
speaking is already far from me.
[Fr., Le temps fuit, et nous traine avec soi:
Le moment ou je parle est deja loin de moi.]
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of read more
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
