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Time Can Be

  • May 11, 2022
  • 4 min read

Updated: Feb 28, 2025

Life

Money

Short

Change

Seasons

What matters

Eternity begun

Transformation

A great teacher

A precious gift

The king of men

A blooming field

A valuable wealth

Our total capital

Our present breath

Power for our work

What the clock says

The great art of man

The life of the soul

Clay - make something

How we spend our love

Not a road but a room

Our greatest resource

The mercy of eternity

The scarcest resource

A perishable commodity

The greatest innovator

The soul of this world

The capital of our life

The least thing we have

What life is made up of

Long days and short years

The backdrop of our lives

The stuff life is made of

The supreme law of nature

The truest form of wealth

Round, and it rolls quickly

Too slow for those who wait

The school in which we learn

The wisest counsellor of all

Too swift for those who fear

What turns kittens into cats

All that really belongs to us

The stream we go a-fishing in

The wisest of all counsellors

A herb that cures all diseases

The fairest and toughest judge

Not a thing that’s ours to lose

Just memory mixed in with desire

Our friend, impulse is our enemy

The best kept secret of the rich

A currency we can only spend once

A series of fluctuating variables

The measure of that which changes

The nurse and breeder of all good

An ocean, but it ends at the shore

Neutral and does not change things

That in which all things pass away

The speed at which the past decays

The substance of which we are made

The best preserver of righteous men

That which is manufactured by clocks

The most precious of our possessions

The most valuable thing we can spend

What stops history happening at once

What the depressed and panicked lack

Not a line, but a series of now-points

The clarity for seeing right and wrong

The speed at which the past disappears

The longest distance between two places

What we want most, but what we use worst

A great manager - it arranges things well

The explicable raw material of everything

The lens through which dreams are captured

The sea in which we grow, are born, or die

The old justice that examines all offenders

The most precious element of human existence

The one thing in which it is right to be stingy

What prevents everything from happening at once

The unmanufactured tissue of the universe of life

Part of today, not simply a measure of its passing

A brisk wind, for each hour it brings something new

The sole resource we gain if spent and waste if not

Not a thing that passes, but a sea on which we float

Like the wind - it lifts the light and leaves the heavy

Change - we measure its passage by how much things alter

The missing ingredient in our recipes - and in our lives

The one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure

Nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once

Our best friend, teaching best of all the wisdom of silence

A stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know

All we have, and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it

Never wasted if we remember to bring along something to read

The turning over of days, working change for better or worse

Of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination

A resource whose supply is inversely proportional to its demand

Our most precious gift, because we only have a set amount of it

The measurable unit of movement concerning a before and an after

The most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions

Relative - its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing

All we have, and we may find one day that we have less than we think

The only capital of those who just have their inteligence as fortune

The wisest of all things that are, for it brings everything to light

Exactly the amount of wealth God gives to each of us on a daily basis

Like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go

Measured by the quality and not the quanity of sensations it contains

Redeemed when we make the most of our life by fulfilling God's purposes

The brush of God, as He paints His masterpiece on the heart of humanity

At once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions

Everything - five minutes make the difference between victory and defeat

The most valuable thing that we have, because it is the most irrevocable

What we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is

The only capital that we have, and the only thing we can’t afford to lose

More value than money - we can get more money, but we cannot get more time

A very precious gift - so precious that it is only given to us moment by moment

Really the only capital that we have, and the only thing we can't afford to lose

Like a handful of sand - the tighter we grasp it, the faster it runs through our fingers

A seedfield - in youth we sow it with causes, in after life we reap the harvest of effects

The continued sequence of existence and events that occurs in an apparently irreversible succession from the past, through the present, into the future


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