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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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A rusty nail placed near a faithful compass, will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy. – Walter Scott

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Do not Christians and Heathens, Jews and Gentiles, poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences? – Walter Scott

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If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently? – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Who well lives, long lives; for this age of ours should not be numbered by years, days, and hours. – Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Divine Weeks and Works, 1578

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As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. – Henry David Thoreau, “Economy,” Walden, 1854

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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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