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Time

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  1. 009 The best day to begin is the day you think of it.
  2. 016 Warm up the old to understand the new.
  3. 026 Spilled water does not return to the tray.
  4. 027 Regret never comes first.
  5. 065 Time is money.
  6. 066 Time flies like an arrow.
  7. 067 The years wait for no one.
  8. 068 One life, one meeting.
  9. 071 Tomorrow, tomorrow's wind will blow.
  10. 076 Everything in life is like the old man's horse.
  11. 078 Wait, and fair weather will come for the crossing.
  12. 080 Great vessels take long to complete.
  13. 093 Better than the tortoise's shell, the merit of years.
  14. 101 Over the moon, gathering clouds; over blossoms, wind.
  15. 106 The autumn sun drops like a well bucket.
  16. 108 The days and months are travelers of a hundred generations.
  17. 109 The river flows on and on, and yet the water is never the same.
  18. 112 One inch ahead lies darkness.
  19. 114 Strike while the iron is hot.
  20. 157 Advance daily, progress monthly.
  21. 159 The year's plan is drawn on New Year's morning.
  22. 168 Field of rapeseed — the moon in the east, the sun in the west.
  23. 175 Blossoms last seven days.
  24. 176 Better fifty today than a hundred tomorrow.
  25. 177 Without far sight, near sorrows.
  26. 192 There is no rain that does not stop.
  27. 206 A rumor lives but seventy-five days.
  28. 209 Summer grasses — all that remains of warriors' dreams.
  29. 215 Departing spring — birds cry, and there are tears in the eyes of fish.
  30. 216 On a bare branch a crow has settled — autumn evening.
  31. 218 How many cloud peaks have crumbled away — and here, the mountain under the moon.
  32. 232 Spring — long ago, a proud castle town of a hundred fifty thousand koku.
  33. 237 One meeting in a thousand years.
  34. 272 Learning calligraphy at sixty.
  35. 276 Iris on the sixth, chrysanthemum on the tenth: one day too late.
  36. 285 Do not count an inch of time as nothing.
  37. 286 In spring, it is the dawn.
  38. 289 The foam floating on still water dissolves here, reforms there, and never lingers long.
  39. 291 The color of the flowers has faded, while I watched the long rains fall — and my life go by.
  40. 300 Do not forget the flower of your beginnings.