“Let us love the passing hour, let us hurry up and enjoy our time.”
Alphonse de Lamartine (1790–1869) French writer, poet, and politician
The Lake (1820), st. 9
“They [the hours] pass by, and are put to our account.”
— Martial, book Epigrammata
V, 20, line 13; this phrase is often found as an inscription on sundials.
Epigrams (c. 80 – 104 AD)
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