"Born Originals, how comes it to pass that we die Copies?"
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"Be wise to-day; 't is madness to defer."
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"Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same."
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"Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one."
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