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  1. A quotation from Horace

    Of lingering and gain-seeking make an end;
    Think, while there’s time, how soon Death’s pyre may blaze;
    And some brief folly mix with prudent ways:
       At the fit hour ’tis sweet to unbend.
     
    [Verum pone moras et studium lucri
    nigrorumque memor, dum licet, ignium
    misce stultitiam consiliis brevem:
    dulce est desipere in loco.]

    Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
    Odes [Carmina], Book 4, # 12, l. 25ff (4.12.25-28) (13 BC) [tr. Marshall (1908)]

    More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/73650/

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  2. A quotation from Carlyle

    So here hath been dawning
    Another blue Day:
    Think wilt thou let it
    Slip useless away.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Poem (1837-08), “Today,” st. 1

    More about this quote: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/84633…

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  3. Yesterday is already a memory.
    Tomorrow is just a promise.
    Today is the gift — that's why it's called the present.

    Enjoy the NOW. ✨

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  4. A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

    Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

    Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
    Essay (1829-06), “Signs of the Times,” Edinburgh Review, Vol. 49, No. 98, Art. 7

    Sourcing, notes: wist.info/carlyle-thomas/731/

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