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

Other quotes by Walter Scott

O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart thats broken! – Walter Scott

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movingon
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Teach you children poetry it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. – Walter Scott

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Poetry
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Carpe Diem
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The future has a way of arriving unannounced. – George F. Will

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If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace… — treasure them. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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One can make a day of any size… – John Muir, August 1875 [I love how this sounds like it could so beautifully appl

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Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear. – Author Unknown

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I prefer to think of them as the Ten Suggestions. – Author Unknown

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Religion

Our ideals are our better selves. – Amos Bronson Alcott

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inspirational

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into ones soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. – John Keats

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Poetry

Since 2001, the Patriot Act has provided the means to detect and disrupt terrorist threats against the U.S. Prior to enactment of the law, major legal barriers prevented intelligence, national defense, and law enforcement agencies from working together and sharing information. – Roger Wicker

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Intelligence