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Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.

— William Wordsworth

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  2. How blessings brighten as they take their flight!
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  5. In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
  6. Pictures deface walls more often than they decorate them.
  7. Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore Of nicely calculated less or more.
  8. We take no note of time but from its loss.

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  • time
  • wisdom
  • action
  • urgency

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