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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

Other quotes by Walter Scott

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn. – 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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What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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

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The more side roads you stop to explore, the less likely that life will pass you by. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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