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Image design Golden Hour
Read & copy
“Procrastination is the thief of time;”
Meaning & context
Young personifies procrastination as something that steadily steals finite time while people postpone decisions and assume future opportunities will remain available.
Source details
Night Thoughts, Night I. The line appears in Young’s long religious and philosophical poem about mortality, delay and preparation for death; it is poetic moral reflection rather than productivity research.