You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time.
Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day
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You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time.
We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.
The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of twenty-four hours is the calm realisation of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.
You can only waste the passing moment.
So let us begin to examine the budget of the day's time.
He has a solid coin of time to spend every day—call it a sovereign.
I will defy you to account to me on the spur of the moment for the other eight hours.
No newspaper reading in trains!
I cannot possibly allow you to scatter priceless pearls of time with such Oriental lavishness.
The idea of devoting to them thirty or forty consecutive minutes of wonderful solitude is to me repugnant.
And when I say "the human machine" I mean the brain and the body—and chiefly the brain.
It is perhaps best not to make too great demands upon our slender stock of deep emotions.
Sir Thomas Bodley's Library at Oxford is, all will admit, a great and glorious institution, one of England's sacred places.
Oxford has never loved Commissioners revising her statutes and reforming her schools.
They were barbarians and wreckers.
The books and manuscripts being thus for sale, the wooden shelves, desks, and seats of the old library, and for the most part the contents of the library had been rescued from miserable ill-usage in the monasteries and chapter-houses where they had their first habitations.
So closely are our duties knit together, that whoso shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.