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I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind.

There are two things that one must get used to or one will find life unendurable: the damages of time and injustices of men.

A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

We have a finite amount of time. Whether short or long, it doesn't matter. Life is to be lived.

Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

'Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.