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 TIME TOASTS

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. Yowto—Night Thoughts. Night I. L. 390. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Erasmus) Time is eternity; Pregnant with all eternity can give; Pregnant with all that makes archangels smile. Who murders Time, he crushes in the birth A power ethereal, only not adorn'd. Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 107. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 801 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Time wasted is existence, used is life. Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 149. We push time from us, and we wish him, back; Life we think long and short; death seek and shun. Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 174. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 801 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In leaves, more durable than leaves of brass, Writes our whole history. Young—Night Thoughts. Night II. L. 275. | seealso = (See also {{sc|Dhyden) We see time's furrows on another's brow, How few themselves in that just mirror see! Yovug—Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 627. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 801 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = In records that defy the tooth of time. Young—The Statesman's Creed. TOASTS Lift, lift the full goblet—away with all sorrow— The circle of friendship what freedom would sever? To-day is our own, and a fig for to-morrow— Here's to the Fourth and our country forever. Franklin P. Adams—Impromptu Lines on July Fourth. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 801 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Waes-hael! for Lord and Dame! O! merry be their Dole; Drink-hael! in Jesu's name, And fill the tawny bowl. King Arthur's Waes-Hael. , The wind that blows, the ship that goes And the lass that loves a sailor. Popular Toast in England about 1820. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 801 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Here's a health to poverty; it sticks by us when all friends forsake us. Toast given in the Boston Bee. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 801 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Some hae meat, and canna eat, And some wad eat that want it; But we hae meat, and we can eat, And sae the Lord be thankit. Burns—The Selkirk Grace. As attributed to him. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 801 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = Some have meat but cannot eat; Some could eat but have no meat; We have meat and can all eat; Blest, therefore, be God for our meat. The Selkirk Grace, in the MSS. of Dr. Plume, of Maldon, Essex, in a handwriting of about 1650. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 801 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I am from Massachusetts, The land of the sacred cod, Where the Adamses snub the Abbotts And the Cabots walk with God. Samuel C. Bushnell—Toast at the Harvard Alumni dinner at Waterbury. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 801 }}

{{Hoyt quote | num = | text = I come from good old Boston, The home of the bean and the cod, Where Cabots speak only to Lowells, And the Lowells speak only to God. Samuel C. Bushnell. Another rendering of his Toast. For answer to same see Jones. | author = | work = | place = | note = | topic = | page = 801 }}