THE BREVITY OF LIFE - time is long but life is short; one life; a little gleam of time between two eternities

If you were to know the day of your death, you would be 'wise' unto quick and thrifty dying minutes preparations; but oh no! The date is hid from your eyes. So that your destiny does not depend on a sudden crafty grab; but on a well-considered purposeful choice.

The largest room in the world is the room for improvement; Don't just exist but live. Leave out the talk and live out the work. You can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pocket
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''I will go anywhere provided it is forward'' - David Livingstone
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''I know there is a reward for pressing forward. I reckon with these four words, ''I've Gone Past Backwards'' - samkleezy
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''To reach the port, we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail and not drift or lie at anchor'' - Oliver Wendell Holmes
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''One life; - a little gleam of time between two eternities'' - Thomas Carlyle
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The brevity of life should make us quicken our duty. We should be concerned with redeeming time and improving opportunities. When as a child, I laughed and wept - Time crept. When as a youth, I dreamt and talked - Time walked. When I became a full-grown man - Time ran. Then as with the years, I older grew - Time flew. Soon, I shall find as I travel on - Time gone. Ensure you make progress as time progresses
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''Oh God, give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed, the courage to change what could be changed, and wisdom to distinguish one from the other'' - Reinhold Niebuhr
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We must so number our days as to compare our work with them, and mind it accordingly with a double diligence, as those that have no time to trifle.