Quote by Lord Chesterfield
The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed;

The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. – Lord Chesterfield

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Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it merely to show that you have one. – Lord Chesterfield

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Learning
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I knew a gentleman who was so good a manager of his time that he would not even lose that small portion of it which the calls of nature obliged him to pass in the necessary-house; but gradually went through all the Latin poets in those moments. – Lord Chesterfield

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Books
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The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description one must travel through it ones self to be acquainted with it. – Lord Chesterfield

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You may delay, but time will not. – Benjamin Franklin

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Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness. – Jean de La Bruyère

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake. – Marie Ray

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A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time. – Francis Bacon, Essays

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