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With every rising of the sun Think of your life as just begun. The past has shrived and buried deep All yesterdays—… — Ella Wheeler Wilcox Copy Share Image
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Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time.… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
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