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

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You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do. – Norman Douglas

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. – Norman Douglas

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We are always getting ready to live but never living. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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When it comes time to die, make sure all you got to do is die. – Attributed to Jim Elliot

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When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets. – Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human

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Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

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