A. M. W. Ball: Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight; Make me a child again just for tonight. Mother, come back from the ec

Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight; Make me a child again just fo — A. M. W. Ball

Backward, turn backward, then time in your flight; Make me a child again just for tonight. Mother, come back from the echoeless shore, Take me again to your heart as of yore.

A. M. W. Ball

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The thing about time is, there’s so much of it between so little. — Michael Greenhut
Let's take the instant by the forward top; For we are old, and on our quick'st d — William Shakespeare
Time wasted is existence, used is life. — Edward Young
Time tries the troth in everything. — Thomas Tusser
War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish — Percival Lowell
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, wit — James Russell Lowell
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. D — David
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It is unfortunate that we try to solve the simplest questions cleverly, and ther — Anton Chekhov
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements — George Bernard Shaw
To love, and to be loved, is the greatest happiness of existence. — Sydney Smith
When Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet. — Lord Byron