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The Desert of Time Wasted
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Copyright, 1912, by American Journal-Examiner.
__ Great Britain Rights Reserved.
ON’T Waste Time.
V Those three words should be
He 11 ’ n mind of every man every
LXJjP dav.
i They should he repeated over
and over in every pulpit, in every
newspaper, in every public school, in every
family group.
Only one thing we have—time. In time we
live, and do our work.
And time we waste like spendthrifts, forget
ting its value and our small supply.
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Otten we have talked to our readers about
waste ol time. Often in futury we shall talk
about it.
We wish that it might be possible to find
words that would put into the mind of every
young man and old man. into the thought of
every woman and child, the lesson that is taught
in the picture on this page.
Wasted time is a great desert, its presiding
genius is a silent, cold, heartless sphinx of
death. On the sands of that desert of wasted
time are scattered the bones of failures and
the footsteps that led nowhere.
Don't waste your time. Don’t waste it in idle
ness: don t waste it in regretting the time al
ready w asted: don I waste it in dissipation: don't
waste it in resolutions a thousand times re
peated, never to be carried out.
Don’t waste your time. I SE IT. Sleep and
work, rest and think
Save part of the time of yesterday by saving
part of the money earned yesterday. Money
earned in days past is the TIME of days past.
Save the time of to-morrow by planning to
use if carefidiv. thoroughly and systematically.
The b'-s* us have already wasted time
enough for the creating of a dozen reputations,
“If Only the Years Would Come Back
Again, and Bring Their Chances Once More.”
That Is the Cry of Millions of Remorseful,
Disappointed Men. The Cry Is Vain. The
Hand of Time V/rites and Passes On. We
Cannot Call It Back.
But Regret for Time Wasted Can Become a
Power for Good in the Time That Remains.
And the Time That Remains IS TIME
ENOUGH, If We Will Only Stop the Waste
and the Idle, Useless Regretting.
for the doing of ten times as much w ork as we
ever shall do.
Time is wasted that devotes itself to
THOUGHT of time wasted.
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Don't waste time. Remember that however
much time vou may have wasted already, vou
have TIME ENOUGH LEFT if you will use it.
The old man has no excuse for mourning
the chances that are gone forever. NO
CHANCES ARE GONE FOREVER WHILE
LIFE AND TIME REMAIN.
You have seen the rising sun and the setting
srn.
They look different to you. hut the difference
is in your imagination.
The rising sun is the sun of youth, and the
setting sun i- the sun of age. One is like the
other. The Hsing sun. like the setting sun.
gives heat and light to the earth and heauty to
the clouds. And no man can tell the difference
between a photograph of the sun th-’ ; rising
and the sun that it is setting, or the difference
between paintings of the two if the paintings
are accurate.
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The rising sun seems to us full of hope, life
and promise. The clouds that the rising sun
paints and illumines seem full of beauty and
freshness unknown to the clouds of the later
day.
The setting sun seems tired the farewell rays
seem different from the early rays that tell of
the coming day.
But the difference is in our MINDS.
In the morning we are fresh, full of ambi
tion and hope, and our eyes see things in one
way.
In the evening we arc tired some illusions
have gone, and the tired eyes see different
colors and different lights.
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Actually, sunset and sunrise are the same.
And actually, the beginning and the end of
life are the same as regards power and possibil
ity, if we can only see things as they are, not be
discouraged, and not be deceived by the hours
and the years that have passed.
Your time in the day is as good as ever it was.
The sun’s light as the sun goes down is as
bright as the light when the sun comes up.
What you could do with your hours forty
vears ago, vou can do in those hours now, IF
YOU WILL.
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Don’t waste time.
If all of your life is ahead of you, plan to use
it all, AND BEGIN WITH THE PRESENT
HOUR.
If half of your life is gone, plan to make the
remaining half as useful as the whole life
would have been without the determination,
the incentive and the knowledge of age.
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You know when you are w asting time. You
CAN stop the waste if you will.
Begin now to save and use your only real
possession.
Time slips through your fingers like sand
through the fingers of a child on the seashore.
Each grain of sand is an hour, and each handful
is a year.
What others have done you can do if you
will. Time enough i§ still ahead of you. The
last days are as good as the first if you refuse to
believe in any difference.
Whether your sun be rising or setting, use
the hours of light and opportunity that remain
Soon the night, the darkness and the cold
will come. All the sand of time will have run
through your fingers, and your chance in this
life will he ended.
“Work, for the night is coming, when man’s
w ork is donn ”