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Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

Time ... is the life of the soul.

Time cannot be expanded, accumulated, mortgaged, hastened, or retarded.

Time is a file that wears and makes no noise.

Time is a flowing river. Happy those who allow themselves to be carried, unresisting, with the current. They float through easy days. They live, unquestioning, in the moment.

Time is a fluid condition which has no existence except in the momentary avatars of individual people.

Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.

Time is a part of eternity, and of the same piece with it.

Time is a sandpile we run our fingers in.

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

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.

Time is an avid gambler who has no need to cheat to win every time.

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. Success depends upon using it wisely-by planning and setting priorities.

Time is an eternal guest that banquets on our ideals and bodies.

Time is an illusion-to orators.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains. I would drink deeper; fish fill the sky, whose bottom is pebbly with stars. I cannot count one. I know not the first letter of the alphabet. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Time is lost when we have not lived a full human life, time unenriched by experience, creative endeavor, enjoyment, and suffering.

Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.


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