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• We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Carpe Diem, Anxiety, Alarms

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.96, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Property is the fruit of labor; property is desirable; it is a positive good.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Positive, Carpe Diem, Fruit

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• It is the wretchedness of being rich that you have to live with rich people.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Money, Carpe Diem, People

  Afterthoughts (1931) "In the World"

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• The vigorous are no better than the lazy during one half of life, for all men are alike when asleep.

  Aristotle

  Carpe Diem, Men, Lazy

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• It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.

  George Washington

  Peace, Carpe Diem, Alliances

  Farewell Address, Philadelphia, Pa., 19 Sept. 1796

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• The ultimate victory of tomorrow is democracy, and through democracy with education, for no people in all the world can be kept eternally ignorant or eternally enslaved.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Education, Carpe Diem, People

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.418, Best Books on

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• History teaches us the mistakes we are going to make.

  Jean Bodin

  Mistake, Carpe Diem, Teach

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• History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

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• It's just as sure a recipe for failure to have the right idea fifty years too soon as five years too late.

  John R. Platt

  Carpe Diem, Ideas, Years

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• It's our mortality that terrifies us, because what we're really seeking is immortality - that is, after all, a fool's errand.

  Roger Caras

  Carpe Diem, Fool, Errands

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• We want a Supreme Court which will do justice under the Constitution - not over it. In our courts we want a government of laws and not of men.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Men, Carpe Diem, Law

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (2008). “Fireside chats of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: radio addresses to the American people about the Depression, the New Deal, and the Second World War, 1933-1944”, Red & Black Pub

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• By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Carpe Diem, Filthy

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• The fool, with all his other faults, has this also, he is always getting ready to live.

  Epicurus

  Carpe Diem, Fool, Faults

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• What part soever you take upon you, play that as well as you can and make the best of it.

  Thomas More

  Carpe Diem, Play, Make The Best Of It

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• All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

  Og Mandino

  Life, Carpe Diem, Men

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• A spiritual life means: It is now or never.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Spiritual, Mean, Carpe Diem

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• I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself.

  Robin Williams

  Carpe Diem, Thinking, Dead Poets Society

  "Fictional character: John Keating". "Dead Poets Society", www.imdb.com. 1989.

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• I have died so little today, friend, forgive me.

  Thomas Lux

  Carpe Diem, Forgive Me, Forgiving

  Thomas Lux (1976). “The glassblower's breath”, Cleveland State Univ Poetry Center

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• Never find your delight in another's misfortune.

  Publilius Syrus

  Carpe Diem, Advice, Delight

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave: From the Latin". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 467, 1856.

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• What to do with your one life? The same thing you would do if you had two lives, and this were the second.

  Robert Breault

  Carpe Diem, Two, Ifs

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• Let you hold in mind, girls, that your beauty must pass
  Like a lovely white clover that rusts with its grass.
  Keep your bottoms off barstools and marry you young
  Or be left--an old barrel with many a bung.

  X. J. Kennedy

  Girl, Carpe Diem, White

  X. J. Kennedy (2007). “In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955–2007”, p.12, JHU Press

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• I say, carpe the chaos, for in chaos is opportunity.

  Gloria Feldt

  Opportunity, Chaos

  Gloria Feldt (2012). “No Excuses: Nine Ways Women Can Change How We Think About Power”, p.187, Seal Press

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• The quality of your moments produces the quality of your life. So, as thoughts come and go and the waves of mind rush on, Carpe punctum-Seize this moment. It deserves your full attention, for it will not pass your way again.

  Dan Millman

  Mind, Quality, Attention

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• I live with carpe diem engraved on my heart.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Heart, Carpe Diem, Engraved

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• The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

  William Sharp

  Carpe Diem, Years, Slides

  William Sharp (2015). “The Washer of the Ford: Legendary Moralities and Barbaric Tales”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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