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Socrates Quotes: Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.
         

Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.


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This page presents the quote "Our lives are but specks of dust falling through the fingers of time. Like sands of the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.". Author of this quote is Socrates. This quote is about time, our lives, dust, fingers, specks, fall, sand, hourglass,.