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Quote by Jack London
The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not w

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. – Jack London

Other quotes by Jack London

Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear? – Jack London

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Time
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Jack London
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. – Jack London

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Helping
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Jack London
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Carpe Diem
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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Carpe Diem

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older. – Larry McMurtry, Some Can Whistle

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Carpe Diem

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

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God gave burdens, also shoulders. – Yiddish Proverb

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If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

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Even in high school, I had friends that I didnt know were gay until years later. Id find out on Facebook or something and be like, Oh, that explains some things, or Wow, no wonder they were so cool. – Kellan Lutz

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