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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Find time still to be learning somewhat good, and give up being desultory.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; “I am rising to a man’s work.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
No form of Nature is inferior to Art; for the arts merely imitate natural forms.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)
Everything is in a state of metamorphosis. Thou thyself art in everlasting change and in corruption to correspond; so is the whole universe.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed (1919)