![Nothing endures except change; nothing is constant except death. Every heartbeat wounds us, and life would be an eternal bleeding to death, were it not for literature. It grants us what nature does not: a golden time that doesn't rust, a springtime that never wilts, cloudless happiness and eternal youth. [my translation]](/assets/img/quote-photos/nothing-endures-except-change-nothing-is-constant-except-death-every-heartbeat.jpg)
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It is better to rust out than wear out. Edwin Markham
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I was so rusty I should be sponsored by WD-40, Nick Faldo
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If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition. Charles Caleb Colton
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There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.
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We are so very 'umble.