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Quote by Jonathan Swift
Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying th

Time is painted with a lock before, and bald behind, signifying thereby that we must take time by the forelock; for, when it is once past, there is no recalling it. – Jonathan Swift

Other quotes by Jonathan Swift

It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind. – Jonathan Swift

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Death
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The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit. – Jonathan Swift

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power
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Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age. – Jonathan Swift

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Age
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Other Quotes from
Carpe Diem
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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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Carpe Diem

Here I am trying to live, or rather, I am trying to teach the death within me how to live. – Jean Cocteau

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Carpe Diem

Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. – William Hazlitt, On the Love of Life, 1815

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Carpe Diem

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent. – Ambrose Bierce

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Carpe Diem

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You never quite know whats going to strike your imagination, or something that wont going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. – Peter Shaffer

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From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war. – Margot Asquith

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I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, Im sorry, you have to take drivers ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it. – Fiona Apple

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When a history book contains no lies it is always tedious. – Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

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