The smallest effort is not lost Each wavelet on the ocean tost Aids in the ebb-tide or the flow Each rain-drop makes some floweret blow Each struggle lessens human woe.
Lost Time is never found again.
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Benjamin Franklin
How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.
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David Norris
Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.
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Dion Boucicault
But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is a day.
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Benjamin Disraeli
Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time, ' is like saying, 'I don't want to.
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Lao Tzu
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