While we are postponing, life speeds by.

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  It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

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  Live among men as if God beheld you; speak with God as if men were listening.

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  We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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  Every man desires to live long; but no man would be old.

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  How quickly we come from nothing and go into nothing.

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  Dust you are, and to dust you shall return.

All aphorisms