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"Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age"

--TILLOTSON.
By the streets of "By and By" one arrives at the house of "Never."
--CERVANTES.
By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till
there's no more future left for them.--L'ESTRANGE.
Procrastination is the thief of time.--YOUNG.
For Yesterday was once To-morrow.--PERSIUS.
Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day.--FRANKLIN.
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.

PROGRESS.--He only is advancing in life whose heart is getting softer,
whose blood warmer, whose brain quicker, whose spirit is entering into
living peace.--RUSKIN.
"Can any good come out of Nazareth?" This is always the question of
the wiseacres and the knowing ones. But the good, the new, comes from
exactly that quarter whence it is not looked for, and is always
something different from what is expected. Everything new is received
with contempt, for it begins in obscurity. It becomes a power
unobserved.--FEUERBACH.
Look up and not down; look forward and not back; look out and not in;
and lend a hand.--E.E. HALE.
I must do something to keep my thoughts fresh and growing. I dread
nothing so much as falling into a rut and feeling myself becoming a
fossil.--JAMES A. GARFIELD.
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks
forward hopefully.--HOSEA BALLOU.
Human improvement is from within outwards.


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