Guard your spare moments!
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- An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account. ~ William Ellery Channing
- Gather the flowers, but spare the buds. ~ Andrew Marvell
- Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He who does not know what to do in his spare time is not a businessman. ~ Chinese Proverb
- I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem. ~ Fitz-Greene Halleck
- I deserve all the love you can spare me. And I want a lot more than I deserve. ~ Dashiell Hammett
- I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. ~ C. S. Lewis
- If you have fear of those that command you, spare those that obey you. ~ Rabbi Ben Azai
- Lazy people have no spare time. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time. ~ Edward L. Bernays
- Mighty proud I am that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends. ~ Samuel Pepys
- Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, is hope. ~ John Armstrong
- Pick my left pocket of its silver dime, but spare the right — it holds my golden time! ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time. ~ Marian Wright Edelman
- Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter. ~ Author Unknown
- Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible. ~ Samuel Goldwyn
- Spare the rod and spoil the child. ~ Samuel Butler
- Spare us what we can learn to endure. ~ Yiddish Proverb
- The poor have no time to spare. ~ Japanese Proverb
- There’s time enough, but none to spare. ~ Charles W. Chesnutt
- Time is like money, the less we have of it to spare the further we make it go. ~ Josh Billings
- To bear other people’s afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. ~ Benjamin Franklin
- We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ~ Marcel Proust
- Wise is the person at either end. Who can in due measure spare as well as spend. ~ Lucian
- Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase “It is the busiest man who has time to spare.” ~ C. Northcote Parkinson
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