The value of Time should never be so foolishly conceived as to urge a
man or a woman to that hurry which shows a thing to be too big for him
who undertakes it. God makes Time. Can you, then, add to it? "Stay a
while to make an end the sooner." You do not gain an hour by robbing
yourself of your sleep. You do not gain in force by enlarging the wheel
that carries your belting. If your constitution require eight hours'
sleep, then go to your bed at ten o'clock and rise like "the sun
rejoicing in the east," fresh-nerved and forceful, apt to carry all
before you. Do not encourage those tempters who come to you asking you
to break into the storehouse of your vitality and rob yourself of two,
three, and often four hours of your rest, leaving you, in the
bankruptcy of after-life a trembling alarmist, subject to the replevins
of rheumatic muscles and the reprisals of revengeful nerves. Remember
that age comes upon us like a snowstorm in the night, and that the mill
will never grind with the water that has passed. Time is the stern
corrector of fools; "Wisdom walks before it, Opportunity with it, and
Temperance behind it. He that has made it his friend will have little to
fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have
little to hope from his friends."
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