THOUGHTS ON TIME.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 24 March 1891, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON TIME.

A year! A life! What are they ? The telling of a tale, the passing of a meteor, a dim speck seen for a moment on Time's horizon, dropping into eternity. — Thomason. , Time passes on, and the fashions of the mind, as well as of the body, change ; but the mind and th** body remain the same in all ages, and are subject to the same accidents of disease and error. — R. Southey. Spend your time in nothing which you .know must be repented of; spend it in nothing which you might not safely and properly be found doing if death should ' apprise you in the act. — R. Baxter. Time should not be allowed to pass with- • out yielding fruits, in the form of something learned worthy of being known, some good principle cultivated, or some good habit strengthened. — Smiles. . Time is like a ship which never anchors *, while lam on board, I had better do thos* things that may profit me at my landing, than practice such as shall cause my commitment when I come ashore. — Feltham. Be avaricious of time ; do not give any ; moment without receiving it in value : the use of time is a debt we contract from birth, and it should only be paid with the interest that our life has accumulated. — Letourneur. • God, who is liberal in all His other gifts, shows us by the wise economy of His providence, how circumspect we ought to be in the management of our time, for he never gives us two moments together. — Fenelon. A man's time, when well husbanded, is like a cultivated field, of which a few acres , produce more of what is useful to life than extensive provinces, even of the robust soil, when overrun with weeds and brambles.— Hume. . There is not such a thing as time — it is but space occupied by incident ; it is the 'same to eternity as matter is to infinite ! space — a portion out of the immense occu- ; pied by something within the sphere ol '■ mortal sense. — Leigh Richmond. : Time, patient the destroyer of all things, unbuilds empires, rots the institutions, disintegrates the nation itself — re-composing its elements until its former identity is lost, and a new stock takes the place of the old.— iT.Tilton.