Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,
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Backward, flow backward, O full tide of years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,
Toil without recompense--tears all in vain,
Take them and give me my childhood again.
I have grown weary of dust and decay,
Weary of sowing for others to reap;
Rock me to sleep, mother, rock me to sleep.

Laurel crowned Horatius
True, how true the saying,
Swift as wind flies over us
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Laurel crowned Horatius
True, how true the saying,
Swift as wind flies over us
Time devouring, slaying.
[Lat., Lauriger Horatius
Quam dixisti verum;
Fugit curo citius
Tempus edax rerum.]

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter read more

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given read more

Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

The clock talked loud. I threw it away, it scared me what it talked.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

By-and-by has no end.
[Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.]

By-and-by has no end.
[Lat., Modo, et modo, non habebent modum.]

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought read more

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to site thn it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.