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Procrastination

This article is climbing up the Digg ladder.  It made me think of a poem by Abraham Cowley that I really like.  It’s a translation from Horace:

Sapere aude:
Incipe.  Vivendi qui recte prorogat horam,
Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at ille
Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.

Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise:
He, who defers this work from day to day,
Does on a river’s bank expecting stay,
Till the whole stream which stopped him should be gone,
That runs, and, as it runs, for ever shall run on.

PS. I put the links in because I know you’re all MORONS.