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Quote 3634
I am not content to pass away like a weaver's shuttle.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3609
Once upon a time there lived in a certain village a little country girl, the prettiest creature was ever seen.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3591
Atisha! atisha! sneezed the old man, but he did not wake, and the shock made the bronze ring jump out of his mouth.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3583
Neither love without knowledge, nor knowledge without love can produce a good life.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3581
It is for us to determine the good life, not for Nature - not even for Nature personified as God.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3572
The object is in constant change.by: Walter BagehotShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3567
How strange a chequer-work of Providence is the life of man!by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3566
I had now brought my state of life to be much easier in itself than it was at first, and much easier to my mind, as well as to my body.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3564
I had not the least advantage by it or benefit from it; but there it lay in a drawer, and grew mouldy with the damp of the cave in the wet seasons.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3563
Time presses.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3561
Blood is upon us again, blood spilled for a perfidious king.by: Oliver CromwellShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3553
I desire only to witness the day of the great victory, then I shall be rewarded far beyond my merits.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3551
Whether I was right or wrong at this time or that interests me no longer, since it all belongs to the past.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3534
There was a miller who left no more estate to the three sons he had than his mill, his ass, and his cat.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3533
In this place you may fearlessly stay.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3528
A celebrated physician has just come from Janina in Albania. He alone can cure the King and give him back the strength of his youth.by: Andrew LangShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3498
Sir Thomas Bodley's Library at Oxford is, all will admit, a great and glorious institution, one of England's sacred places.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3483
You can only waste the passing moment.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3481
We never shall have any more time. We have, and we have always had, all the time there is.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3480
You have to live on this twenty-four hours of daily time.by: Arnold BennettShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3476
A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3473
The horror! The horror!by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3471
The wilderness had found him out early, and had taken on him a terrible vengeance for the fantastic invasion.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3469
The wilderness without a sound took him into its bosom again.by: Joseph ConradShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3461
Centaur, fear for thy life!by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3458
They may be compared with waterspouts, and they pour down on the poet, be he a Schiller or a Dante, an Ovid or a Byron, utterly overwhelming him, rending his heart and body, tearing down his fame, overturning his reputation, uprooting his honour.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3457
It is ever the case with men in high places who are before the eye of the public: tempests arise unexpectedly, the existence of which is not suspected by the victim till they burst over his head.by: Alexandre DumasShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3455
To be a kind of nothing for a moment.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3454
Time, which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3448
I can study, play, or sleep in a tempest.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3436
In the midst of life we are in death.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3427
Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts.by: Daniel DefoeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3374
I think that in all descriptions of the good life here on earth we must assume a certain basis of animal vitality and animal instinct; without this, life becomes tame and uninteresting.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3373
The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3360
In short, LIVING seems to me a business for which I was not made, and yet...!by: Gustave FlaubertShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3357
I would like to give you a little of my sleep that nothing, not even a cannon, can disturb.by: Gustave FlaubertShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3349
The fear of death is more to be feared, than death itself.by: Publilius SyrusShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3339
Men are but children of a larger growth.by: John DrydenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3324
There lay a young man, fast asleep--sleeping so soundly, so deeply, that he was far, far away from them both.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3323
Isn't life, she stammered, isn't life--Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3319
Never is an awfully long time.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3316
To die will be an awfully big adventure.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3315
All children, except one, grow up.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3309
The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding unrighteousness; for that runs faster than death.by: SocratesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3283
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting,Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3282
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3281
The Child is Father of the Man;Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3271
Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3270
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind.by: John DonneShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3258
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.by: Thomas CarlyleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3257
Speech is of Time, Silence is of Eternity.by: Thomas CarlyleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3241
The love of life, then, is an habitual attachment, not an abstract principle.by: William HazlittShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3240
No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime.by: William HazlittShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3216
The present is never our end; the past and the present are our means; the future alone is our end.by: Blaise PascalShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3213
To him that lives well, every form of life is good.by: Samuel JohnsonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3211
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured and little to be enjoyed.by: Samuel JohnsonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3204
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3203
Give yourself some repose; the land that has lain fallow, gives back in abundance what has been entrusted to it.by: OvidShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3194
Go about every action as thy last action.by: Marcus AureliusShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3185
Because I could not stop for Death, He kindly stopped for me.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3176
Look before you leap.by: AesopShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3166
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3155
Compared to what we ought to be, we are half awake.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3154
If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3152
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3149
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3147
Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3140
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3134
Human beings can alter their lifes by altering their attitudes of mind.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3131
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3130
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3128
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.by: William JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3119
There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognitionby: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3118
People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3106
Life is a predicament which precedes death.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3087
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractionsby: Albert EinsteinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3074
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spendingby: Anne BradstreetShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3068
Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of; they just turn up some of the ill weeds on to the surfaceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3054
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3053
Every generation needs regenerationShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3051
Some temptations come to the industrious, but all temptations attack the idleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3050
He that deserves nothing should be content with anythingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3041
Our misery is that we thirst so little for these sublime things, and so much for the mocking trifles of time and spaceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3037
It is not well to make great changes in old ageShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3028
When the house is on fire good girls have to get out as well as the bad onesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 3022
If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature; and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is natureby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3015
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.by: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3003
Time does not become sacred to us until we have lived itby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 3001
Life is a struggle, but not a warfareby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2998
The spirit of man can endure only so much and when it is broken only a miracle can mend itby: John BurroughsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2981
Man may be considered as a superior species of animal that produces philosophies and poems in about the same way a silkworm produces their cocoons and bees their hivesby: Hyppolyte TaineShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2974
The world loves a spice of wickednessShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2971
All are architects of fate, working in these walls of timeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2969
How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of beginnings, story without end, each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2968
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing serviceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2964
Youth comes but once in a lifetimeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2962
The human voice is the organ of the soulShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2960
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow is our destined way, but to act that each tomorrow may find us further than todayShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2959
Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within and God overheadShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2949
A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rainShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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