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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The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt. – Walter Scott

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A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. – 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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Later never exists. – Author Unknown

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Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. – Mark Twain

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

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Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God. – Mary Manin Morrissey

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