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Promptitude is not only a duty, but is also a part of good manners; it is favorable to fortune, reputation, influence, and usefulness; a little attention and energy will form the habit, so as to make it easy and delightful.: Charles Simmons
Everything in the world may be endured, except continual prosperity.: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness, no delay, no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.: Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.: Thomas Fuller (1608 - 1661)
The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.: Simms
By a peculiar prerogative, not only each individual is making daily advances in the sciences, and may makes advances in morality, but all mankind together are making a continual progress in proportion as the universe grows older; so that the whole human race, during the course of so many ages, may be considered as one man, who never ceases to live and learn.: Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
All progress is based on a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.: Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902)
The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.: Author Unknown
The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better.: John Christian Bovee
Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fool reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven.: Young

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