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Quote by Walter Scott
To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to

To always be intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it — this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed. – Walter Scott

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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer. – Walter Scott

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He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. – Walter Scott

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All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education. – Walter Scott

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Fear not that life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. – John Henry Cardinal Newman

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

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I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. – William Shakespeare

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Who knows whether the gods will add tomorrow to the present hour? – Horace

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