"When we are planning for posterity, we ought……" — Thomas Paine

More Carpe Diem Quotes

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• The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Saint Augustine
• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of… — Diane Ackerman
• Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. — Lord Acton
• They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
• I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something… — Franklin P. Adams
• You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself. — Ethel Barrymore
• Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. — Melody Beattie
• Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. — Joseph Addison
• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. — Hilaire Belloc
• I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their… — Bernard Berenson
• If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — Milton Berle
• If you come to a fork in the road, take it. — Yogi Berra

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