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Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? – Norman Douglas

Other quotes by Norman Douglas

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague. – Norman Douglas

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Happiness
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Norman Douglas
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How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of ones senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. – Norman Douglas

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Reality
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Norman Douglas
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Life, if well lived, is long enough. – Seneca, De Ira

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The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Carpe Diem

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. – Hector Berlioz

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Carpe Diem

When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. – Samuel Johnson

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