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Quote 869
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk aloneShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 867
The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our livesby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 866
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 865
Beauty is everywhere a welcome guestShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 864
Beauty is not caused. It isShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 863
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates themby: David HumeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 861
A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a powerby: George MeredithShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 858
Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with itShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 854
The only security of all is in a free pressby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 835
When a noble life has prepared old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 833
Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 832
You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man longShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 831
I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 830
She lacks the indefinable charm of weaknessShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 829
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued themShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 827
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishlyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 823
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreamsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 815
Life is a romantic business, but you have to make the romance.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 802
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within usShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of deathby: Walter WhitmanShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 636
Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of viceby: Cato the YoungerShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Old age: A great sense of calm and freedom. When the passions have relaxed their hold, you may have escaped, not from one master but from many.by: PlatonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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I can resist everything except temptationShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 620
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stickShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 615
There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of courseShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 614
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escapeby: Samuel JohnsonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 612
What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energyby: VoltaireShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 610
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 609
It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrectionby: VoltaireShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 606
Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 605
Which death is preferably to every other? – The unexpectedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 598
A woman's always younger than a man at equal yearsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 594
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on childrenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 591
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.by: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 549
The price of freedom is eternal vigilanceby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 548
If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinkingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 547
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I amby: Francis BaconShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 543
Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 524
Immigrant: An unenlightened person who thinks one country better than anotherShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 519
True life is lived when tiny changes occurby: Leo TolstoiShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 517
A man can die but once.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 516
: I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slaveryShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 514
Life’s most presistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 508
I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 499
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statisticby: Josef StalinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 497
Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativityby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 491
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make oneby: Elbert HubbardShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 487
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunesby: VoltaireShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Last words are for fools who haven't said enoughby: Karl MarxShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 477
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we giveShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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History is a set of lies agreed uponby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The more things change, the more they are the sameShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything elseShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 447
My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happenedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 444
Sometimes even to live is an act of courageShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 437
As for a future life, every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilitiesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Fire burns only when we are near it, but a beautiful face burns and inflames, though at a distanceby: XenophonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a timeby: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 419
It does not matter how long you live, but how well you do it.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simplerby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Men willingly believe what they wishShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 393
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deeds of anotherShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?by: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The glory of ancestors sheds a light around posterity; it allows neither their good nor bad qualities to remain in obscurityby: SallustShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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What is lawful is undesirable; what is unlawful is very attractiveby: OvidShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 338
Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspentShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 334
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the newShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six monthsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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So soon as a fashion is universal, it is out of dateShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundingsby: Okakura KakuzoShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.by: Edgar Allan PoeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Imagination governs the worldby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 274
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you mustShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 273
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are freeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 272
Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estateShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Hand: A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocketShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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We rise in glory as we sink in prideby: Edward YoungShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestorsby: Edmund BurkeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing inShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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What delights us in visible beauty is the invisibleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on childrenby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilizationby: Sigmund FreudShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Don't take life too seriously; you'll never get out of it aliveby: Elbert HubbardShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matterby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Year: A period of three hundred and sixty-five disappointmentsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is allShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focusby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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From sublime to ridiculousness there is only one stepby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chainsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explainedby: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Birth and ancestry, and that which we have not ourselves achieved, we can scarcely call our ownby: OvidShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.by: Mark TwainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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A little rebellion now and then is a good thingby: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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In heaven all the interesting people are missingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rulesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The true wisdom of life consists in seeing the extraordinary in the commonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Pleasure is the only thing to live for. Nothing ages like happinessShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep movingby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather wasby: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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