“The bell strikes one. We take no note of time
But from its loss.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 55.
“Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,
Hell threatens.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night II, Line 292.
“Time elaborately thrown away.”
The Last Day, book i; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“By all means use some time to be alone.”
A slight misquotation of George Herbert "The Church Porch", line 145: "By all means use sometimes to be alone", in The Temple (1633).
Misattributed
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night V, Line 627.
“Procrastination is the thief of time.”
Source: Night-Thoughts (1742–1745), Night I, Line 393.