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Every second is of infinite value
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness
Time, which strengthens friendship, weakens love
To choose time is to save time
Time discovers truth
The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration.

It is a beauteous Evening
On a fair prospect some have looked,
And felt, as I have heard them say,
As if the moving time had been
A thing as steadfast as the scene
On which they gazed themselves away.

Peter Bell
Was it for this the wild geese spread
The gray wing upon every tide;
For this that all that blood was shed,
For this. Edward Fitzgerald died,
And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,
All that delirium of the brave?
Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
It's with O'Leary in the grave.

Responsibilities. September, 1913
There's a new tribunal now,
Higher than God's the educated man's!

The Ring and the Book
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