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The word “now” is like a bomb through the window, and it ticks. – Arthur Miller, After the Fall, 1964

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

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What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal. – John Howe

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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

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Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?… what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?… If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that. – Epictetus

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When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. – William Blake

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Men never moan over the opportunities lost to do good, only the opportunities to be bad. – Proverb

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Fear created the first gods in the world. – Caecilius Statius

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Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. – Willa Cather

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