Seize the Day

I went to the woods to live deliberately, 

To front the facts of life, 

To see if i could not learn 

What it had to teach, 

That i should not die 

And learn that i had not lived. 

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He's my only one

Now that my time has come

Now that my life is done

We look into the sun

Seize the day

And don't you cry

Now it's time

To say good-bye

Even though

I'll be gone

I will live on

Live on

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Happiness is like a butterfly;

The more you chase it, 

The more it will elude you.

But if you turn your attention to other things, 

It will come and sit softly on your shoulder


* Thoreau

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  Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,

          Old time is still a-flying;

And the same flower that smiles today

          Tomorrow will be dying.

The glorious lamp of heaven the sun,

          The higher he's a-getting,

The sooner will his race be run,

          And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,

          When youth and blood are warmer;

But being spent, the worse, and worst

          Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,

          And, while ye may, go marry;

For, having lost but once your prime,

          You may forever tarry.