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To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.
To be always intending to live a new life, but never to find time to set about it; this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day and night to another, till he is starved and destroyed.
Approximate author period: c. 1662 AD · renaissance
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- John Tillotson
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- Approximate author period: c. 1662 AD · renaissance
author lifetime midpoint (1630–1694)
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- Many Thoughts of Many Minds (1896) (1896 AD)
Procrastination · anthology attribution: Tillotson
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