The Hour Glass Footprints of Memories
The days of the years of our pilgrimage
are threescore years and ten.
The generations crowd each other off the
stage of time in swift succession.
The sand runs out in the hour glass.
Time is only the tick of the second hand
in the clock of the ages.
Some morning the senses will fail
to resume business. Every door will be
unlocked, every shutter drawn.
Eye, ear, and hand will fail to respond.
There will no longer be any medium
by which to enter the temporal.
An invisible hand has written "finis"
across another human career,
and people say "the man is dead."
He has not ceased to be;
he has merely finished with time.
Anonymous
If I had the time to find a place
And sit me down full face to face
With my better self, that stands no show
In my daily life that rushes so,
It might be then I would see my soul
Was stumbling still toward the shining goal~
I might be nerved by the thought sublime,
If I had the time!
If I had the time to learn from you
How much for comfort my word would do;
And I told you then of my sudden will
to kiss your feet when I did you ill
If the tears aback of the bravado
Could force their way and let you know~
Brothers, the souls of us all would chime,
If we had the time!
Richard Burton
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
To each they offer gifts after his will,
Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
I, in my pleached garden, wathced the pomp,
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
Turned and departed silent. I, too late,
Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Time is brief
Because the longest life is brief
I must be swift in keeping
the little trysts with kindliness,
Before the time of sleeping!
I must be swift in reaching out,
To those whose hearts are yearning;
O, swift indeed to love them much
Before the long road's turning!
Before a sudden summons comes,
I surely must be saying
The words that I have failed to say~
The prayers I should be praying.
Grace Noll Crowell
Dost thou love life?
then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life
is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is the chrysalis of eternity.
Richter
To KILL time is,
by definition,
to murder it.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is:
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve;
Too short for those who rejoice;
But for those who love,
Time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
The Hours
The bell strikes one. We take no note of time but
from its loss. To give it then a tongue is wise in
man. As if an angel spoke. I feel the solemn sound.
If heard aright, it is the knell of my departed hours.
Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
It is the signal that demands dispatch; how much is to
be done!
Young
Future Days
Banish the future; live only for the hour and its
allotted work. Think no of the amount to be
accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, but
set earnestly at the little task at your elbow,
letting that be sufficient for the the day; for
surely our plain duty is "not to see what lies
dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly
at hand.
Osler
Forever
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry,
lost knowledge by study, lost health by
temperance, but lost time is gone for ever.
Smiles
Today
Yesterday I dragged wearily along, passively resigned,
the Man-I-Am... between the Man-I-Might-Have-Been and
the Man-I-Yet-May-Be. But now today, I feel that with
Christ's helf all things are possible to the aspirations,
the energy, and courage that are thrilling in me in this
beautiful new-born life of today, and the Man-I-Yet-May-Be
draws closer to my side.
O.F.
Present
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For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms.
They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and
wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present
fellings. They must be deepened into decision, or be
entirely dissipated by delay.
Today
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-Morrow is only a Vision;
But To-Day, well lived,
Makes every Yesterday
A dream of Happiness,
And every To-Morrow a Vision of Hope.
Tomorrow
Todays is the wise man's day; tomorrow is the fool's day.
The wise man is the man who, when he sees what ought to
be done, does it today. The foolish man is the man who,
when he sees what ought to be done, says, "I will do it
tomorrow." The men who always do today the thing they
see ought to be done today are the men who make a success
for time and for eternity. The men and women who put off
until tomorrow what ought to be done today are the men
and women who make a shipwreck of time and of eternity.
Banks
Now
There is no moment like the present. The man who will
not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon
him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be
dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of
the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Maria Edgeworth
Hour
I owe all my success in life
to having been always a quarter
of an hour beforehand.
Lord Nelson
Moments
The small stone which fill up the crevices have almost
as much to do with making the fair and firm wall as
the great rock; so the wise use of spare moments
contributes not a little to the building up in good
proportions a man's mind.
E. Paxton Hood
Past
Study the past if
you would divine
the future.
Confucius
Morning
The morning, which is the most memorable season of
the day, is the awakening hour....
Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be
called a day, to which we are not awakened by our
Genius... All memorable events, I should say,
transpires in morning time and in morning atmosphere...
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keep pace
with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning...
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me...
Thoreau
Half an Hour
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing
than to recon even a half hour insignificant.
Goethe
Now
There is a time to be born, and a time to die, says Solomon,
and it is the momento of a truly wise man;
but there is an interval between these two times
of infinite importance.
Richmond
Forever
Keep forever in view the momentous value of life;
aim at its worthiest use, its sublimest end;
spurn, with disdain, those foolish trifles and
frivoulous vanities, which so often consume life,
as the locusts did Egype; and devote yourself,
with the ardor of a passion, to attain the most
devine improvements of the human soul. In short,
hold yourself in preparation to make the transition
to another life, whenever you shall be claimed by
the Lord of the world.
J. Foster
Punctuality
Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business,
and the graceful courtesy of princes.
Bulwer
Time
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind,
signifying thereby that we must take time by the
forelock, for when it is once passed there is no
recalling it.
Swift
Today
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Franklin
Today Yesterday
Theodore Cuyler
The Hour Glass and the Sands of Time
How much for comfort my word would do;
And I told you then of my sudden will
to kiss your feet when I did you ill
If the tears aback of the bravado
Could force their way and let you know~
Brothers, the souls of us all would chime,
If we had the time!
Richard Burton
Daughters of Time, the hypocritic Days,
Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,
And marching single in an endless file,
Bring diadems and fagots in their hands.
To each they offer gifts after his will,
Bread, kingdoms, stars, and sky that holds them all.
I, in my pleached garden, wathced the pomp,
Forgot my morning wishes, hastily
Took a few herbs and apples, and the Day
Turned and departed silent. I, too late,
Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Time is brief
Because the longest life is brief
I must be swift in keeping
the little trysts with kindliness,
Before the time of sleeping!
To those whose hearts are yearning;
O, swift indeed to love them much
Before the long road's turning!
I surely must be saying
The words that I have failed to say~
The prayers I should be praying.
Grace Noll Crowell
Dost thou love life?
then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life
is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is the chrysalis of eternity.
Richter
To KILL time is,
by definition,
to murder it.
Benjamin Franklin
Time is:
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve;
Too short for those who rejoice;
But for those who love,
Time is eternity.
Henry Van Dyke
The Hours
from its loss. To give it then a tongue is wise in
man. As if an angel spoke. I feel the solemn sound.
If heard aright, it is the knell of my departed hours.
Where are they? With the years beyond the flood.
It is the signal that demands dispatch; how much is to
be done!
Young
Future Days
allotted work. Think no of the amount to be
accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, but
set earnestly at the little task at your elbow,
letting that be sufficient for the the day; for
surely our plain duty is "not to see what lies
dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly
at hand. Osler
Forever
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry,
lost knowledge by study, lost health by
temperance, but lost time is gone for ever.
Smiles
Today
Yesterday I dragged wearily along, passively resigned,
the Man-I-Am... between the Man-I-Might-Have-Been and
the Man-I-Yet-May-Be. But now today, I feel that with
Christ's helf all things are possible to the aspirations,
the energy, and courage that are thrilling in me in this
beautiful new-born life of today, and the Man-I-Yet-May-Be
draws closer to my side.
O.F.
Present
For a few brief days the orchards are white with blossoms.
They soon turn to fruit, or else float away, useless and
wasted, upon the idle breeze. So will it be with present
fellings. They must be deepened into decision, or be
entirely dissipated by delay.
Today
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-Morrow is only a Vision;
But To-Day, well lived,
Makes every Yesterday
A dream of Happiness,
And every To-Morrow a Vision of Hope.
Tomorrow
Todays is the wise man's day; tomorrow is the fool's day.
The wise man is the man who, when he sees what ought to
be done, does it today. The foolish man is the man who,
when he sees what ought to be done, says, "I will do it
tomorrow." The men who always do today the thing they
see ought to be done today are the men who make a success
for time and for eternity. The men and women who put off
until tomorrow what ought to be done today are the men
and women who make a shipwreck of time and of eternity.
Banks
Now
There is no moment like the present. The man who will
not execute his resolutions when they are fresh upon
him can have no hope from them afterwards: they will be
dissipated, lost, and perish in the hurry and scurry of
the world, or sunk in the slough of indolence.
Maria Edgeworth
Hour
I owe all my success in life
to having been always a quarter
of an hour beforehand.
Lord Nelson
Moments
The small stone which fill up the crevices have almost
as much to do with making the fair and firm wall as
the great rock; so the wise use of spare moments
contributes not a little to the building up in good
proportions a man's mind.
E. Paxton Hood
Past
Study the past if
you would divine
the future.
Confucius
Morning
The morning, which is the most memorable season of
the day, is the awakening hour....
Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be
called a day, to which we are not awakened by our
Genius... All memorable events, I should say,
transpires in morning time and in morning atmosphere...
To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keep pace
with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning...
Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me...
Thoreau
Half an Hour
It is better to be doing the most insignificant thing
than to recon even a half hour insignificant.
Goethe
Now
There is a time to be born, and a time to die, says Solomon,
and it is the momento of a truly wise man;
but there is an interval between these two times
of infinite importance.
Richmond
Forever
Keep forever in view the momentous value of life;
aim at its worthiest use, its sublimest end;
spurn, with disdain, those foolish trifles and
frivoulous vanities, which so often consume life,
as the locusts did Egype; and devote yourself,
with the ardor of a passion, to attain the most
devine improvements of the human soul. In short,
hold yourself in preparation to make the transition
to another life, whenever you shall be claimed by
the Lord of the world.
J. Foster
Punctuality
and the graceful courtesy of princes.
Bulwer
Time
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind,
signifying thereby that we must take time by the
forelock, for when it is once passed there is no
recalling it.
Swift
Today
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff that life is made of.
Franklin
Today Yesterday
Theodore Cuyler
Study the Past If You Would Divine the Future