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Indulge in procrastination, and in time you will come to this, that because a thing ought to be done, therefore you can't do it. - Charles Buxton By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never." - Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra) Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition. - George B. Cheever A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the looms large. - Alyce P. Comyn-Selby, Procrastinator's Success Kit Postpone not your life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin I leave a great deal to "unfinished business!" - Robert Lee Frost Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow. - Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything. - Samuel Johnson (a/k/a Dr. Johnson) ("The Great Cham of Literature") By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them. - Sir Roger L'Estrange Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle. - Abraham Lincoln To be always intending to make a new and better life but never to find time to set about it is as to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you're dead. - Og Mandino (Augustine A. Mandino) There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. - Mignon McLaughlin For Yesterday was once To-morrow. - Persius (Aulus Persius Flaccus) While we deliberate about beginning it is all ready too late to begin. - Quintilian (Marcus Fabius Quintilianus) Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. - Will Rogers The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how to do it is one of the greatest burglars of joy. Be deliberate, but once you've made up your mind--jump in. - Charles R. Swindoll The next day is never so good as the day before. - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed. - John Tillotson
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