Schiller said, " The moments we forego, Eternity itself cannot retrieve". Friends, it is the idle who complain they cannot find time to do that which they wish.In truth, people can generally make time for which they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is found wanting.
Lord Chesterfield once said, " Every moment you now lose, is so much character and advantage lost; as, on the other hand, every moment you now employ usefully, is so much time wisely laid out, at prodigious interest". There is a Turkish proverb which says that "The Devil tempts the busy man, but the idle man tempts the Devil"! The life of a healthy man is 70 years, but how little of this is actually our own?? We must deduct the time required for sleep, for meals, etc., and then how little remains really at our disposal !
The hours we live for other people, however, are not those which should be deducted, but rather those which benefit neither oneself nor any one else; and these, alas, are often very numerous. There are some hours which are taken from us, some which are stolen from us, and some which slip from us. But if we lose them, we can never get them back.
Therefore, time, indeed, is a sacred gift, and each day is a little life. Time is often said to fly ! but it is not so much the time that flies; as we waste it, and wasted time is worse than no time at all !! Time is often said to be money, but it is more - it is life; and yet many who would cling desperately to life, think nothing of wasting time.
"Are you in earnest ? Seize this very minute,
What you can do, or think you can, begin it. "
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