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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying th

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 past, there is no recalling it. – Jonathan Swift

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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift

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He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put into vials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw, inclement summers. – Jonathan Swift

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There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused…. sprawling there, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889

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If you believe in forever, then life is just a one-night stand. – Righteous Brothers, “Rock & Roll Heaven”

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Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank. – Ben Irwin

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You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. – Charles Buxton

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