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Quote 2531
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to dieShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2527
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of changeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2517
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2505
Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianismShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2501
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious that personal privacy should be respectedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2500
Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurableShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2472
Man's spiritual nature is no dream of theologians to vanish before the light of natural science. It is the grandest reality on earthShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2462
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable lifeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2456
Life has a higher end, than to be amusedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2444
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurablyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2443
Courage considered in itself or without reference to its causes, is no virtue, and deserves no esteemShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2442
Happily in this community we all are bred and born to work; and this honorable mark, set on us all, should bind together the various portions of the communityShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2441
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2440
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teachShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2410
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2394
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowelsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2390
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idolsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2386
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who thinkShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2383
We hope to grow old, and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and flee from deathShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2381
Jesting is often only indigence of intellectShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2372
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and noveltyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2365
They that have lived a single day have lived an ageShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2354
We come too late to say anything which has not been said alreadyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2352
It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of menShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2341
The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truthShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2339
There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to liveShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2338
Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevityShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2326
All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being aloneShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2324
Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and moreShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2323
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effectShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2299
There may be heaven; there must be hell; meantime, there is our earth here - well!Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2291
For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, and hope and fear, believe the aged friend, is just a chance o' the prize of learning loveShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2290
Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yetShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2287
There are times when patience proves at faultShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2282
The world and its way have a certain worthShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2281
Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my faceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2276
Let age approve of youth, and death complete the sameShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2274
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie alsoShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2268
The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions areShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2255
So free we seem, so fettered fast we areShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2253
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength onShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2250
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shockedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2246
Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to deathShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2245
None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not freeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2242
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible - and achieve it, generation after generationShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2235
The boundary between civilization and barbarism is difficult to draw: put one ring in your nose and you are a savage, put two rings in your ears and you are civilized.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2232
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterdayShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2231
Order is the shape upon which beauty dependsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2229
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2225
One faces the future with one's pastShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2220
You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2218
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarterShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2215
It is vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find itShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2213
The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter, often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter, in the eyeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2212
The human heart has hidden treasures, in secret kept, in silence sealed; the thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, whose charms were broken if revealedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2210
Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the lastShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2209
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases meShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2208
Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier yearsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2206
I feel monotony and death to be almost the sameShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2205
Look twice before you leapShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2204
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectationShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2202
Better to be without logic than without feelingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2193
The longest day must have its close -the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal dayShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2183
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old womenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2177
But what is past my help is past my careShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2174
Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sightedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2173
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2169
He lives most life whoever breathes most airShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2165
Men get opinions as boys learn to spell, by reiteration chieflyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2160
Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wondersShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2150
The right to be alone, the most comprehensive of rights, and the right most valued by civilized manShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2147
There are no shortcuts in evolutionShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2137
Heredity is nothing but stored environmentShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2133
Things and actions are what they are, and the consequences of them will be what they will be: why then should we desire to be deceived?Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2132
But to us, probability is the very guide of lifeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2131
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purposeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2100
Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2094
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2093
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mindShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2088
What is now proved was once only imagined.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2069
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2067
Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soulShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2065
In putting off what one has to do, one runs the risk of never being able to do itShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2058
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an artShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2057
There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happinessShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2055
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2054
The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soulShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2052
The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weaknessShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2051
Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labour doneShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2044
America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar and use it up in two weeksShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2038
A man must pay the fiddler, in my case it so happened that a whole symphony orchestra often had to be subsidizedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2036
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimonyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2035
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreamsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2033
The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be goodShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2022
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy taleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2020
My life is a lovely story, happy and full of incidentShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2019
Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's eggShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2016
A fair request should be followed by the deed in silenceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2011
The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others comeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2009
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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