He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
- Topic: Action, Consistent, Work
- Location: Gulf of Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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For we that live please must please to live.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.
To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts prosecution.
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