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Quote by Lord Byron
When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep,

When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning — how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse. – Lord Byron

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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butchers cleaver. – Lord Byron

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Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. – Lord Byron

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Why always “not yet”? Do flowers in spring say “not yet”? – Norman Douglas

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

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One can make a day of any size… – John Muir, August 1875 [I love how this sounds like it could so beautifully appl

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Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The burden one likes is cheerfully carried. – Proverb

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