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"Life is long if you know how to use it."

"The time of a man's life is as a point; the substance of it ever flowing, the sense obscure; and the whole composition of the body tending to corruption."

"As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters."

"Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life."

"The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready and firm for the unforeseen attack."

"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love."

"Time is the one thing that is truly ours."

"It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it."

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