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Time on his head has snowed, yet still 'tis borne aloft. - Edward Young Nought treads so silent as the foot of Time; Hence we mistake our autumn for our prime. - Edward Young, Love of Fame (satire V, l. 497) Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night I, l. 390) The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss: to give it then a tongue Is wise in man. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night I, l. 55) Time is eternity; Pregnant with all eternity can give; Pregnant will all that makes archangels smile. Who murders Time, he crushes in the birth A power ethereal, only not adorn'd. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 107) Time wasted is existence, used is life. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 149) We push time from us, and we wish him back; . . . . Life we think long and short; death seek and shun. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 174) In leaves, more durable than leaves of brass, Writes our whole history. - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night II, l. 275) We see time's furrows on another's brow, . . . . How few themselves in that just mirror see! - Edward Young, Night Thoughts (night V, l. 627) In records that defy the tooth of time. - Edward Young, The Statesman's Creed Man seems to be deficient in nothing so much as he is in time. - Zeno The quarter of an hour before dinner is the worst that suitors can choose. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Time is never more misspent than while we declaim against the want of it; all our actions are then tinctured with peevishness. The yoke of life is certainly the least oppressive when we carry it with good-humor; and in the shades of rural retirement, when we have once acquired a resolution to pass our hours with economy, sorrowful lamentations on the subject of time misspent and business neglected never torture the mind. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann Displaying page 18 of 18 for this topic: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [18]
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