Josh Billings - Time Quotes

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I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.

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Life is short, but if you notice the way most people spend their time, you would suppose that life was everlasting.

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Rather than not have faith in any thing, I am willing to be beat 9 times out of 10.

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A lazy man is one who has no time to spare; an industrious man is one who has more time to spare than he knows what to do with.

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Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, But four times he who gets his blow in fust

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If we would all of us take care of our own souls, and let our neighbors alone, there would be less time lost, and more souls saved.

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Truth is the only thing that Time cannot destroy, and Eternity cannot dispense with.

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If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her spectacles, safe on her nose all the time.

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Many people spend their time trying to find the hole where sin got into this world—if two men brake through the ice into a mill pond, they had better hunt for sum good hole to get out, rather than get into a long argument about the hole they come to fall in.

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Hunters and gamblers are poor economists, they kill time, a species of game that can't be reproduced.

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The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

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Take all the prophecies that have come to pass, and all that have caught on the center, and failed to come to time, and make them up in an average, and yer will find, that buying stock, on the Codfish Bank of Nufoundland, at 50%, for a rise, is, in comparison, a good speculative business.

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The time to pray is not when we are in a tight spot but just as soon as we get out of it.

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Give every one you meet, my boy, the time of day and half the road, and if that don't make him civil don't waste any more fragrance on the cuss.

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