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Quote 2937
Habits wear more constantly and with greatest force than reason, which, when we have most need of it, is seldom fairly consulted, and more rarely obeyedby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2932
Our deeds disguise us. People need endless time to try on their deeds, until each knows the proper deeds for him to do. But every day, every hour, rushes by. There is no timeby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2924
The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of itby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2916
The dread of evil is a much more forcible principle of human actions than the prospect of goodby: John LockeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2902
Some people read because they are too lazy to thinkShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2898
A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye onShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2882
Reason now gazes above the realm of the dark but warm feelings as the alpine peaks do above the clouds. They behold the sun more clearly and distinctly, but they are cold and unfruitfulShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2879
What most clearly characterizes true freedom and its true employment is its misemploymentShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2868
I cannot stop thinking that I died before I was born and that at my death I will return to the same stateShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2864
An hour-glass is a reminder not only of time's quick flight, but also of the dust to which we must at last returnShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2853
One might call habit a moral friction: something that prevents the mind from gliding over things but connects it with them and makes it hard for it to free itself from themShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2829
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me lessby: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2818
I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.by: Charles LambShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2798
Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of historyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2796
Habit with its iron sinews, clasps us and leads us day by dayShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2776
It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something newby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2775
When a culture feels that its end has come, it sends for a priest.by: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2761
Progress, under whose feet the grass mourns and the forest turns into paper from which newspaper plants grow, has subordinated the purpose of life to the means of subsistence and turned us into the nuts and bolts for our toolsby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2757
A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.by: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2756
Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the formerby: Karl KrausShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2754
Remember that lost time does not return.by: Thomas a KempisShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2745
The automobile changed our dress, manners, social customs, vacation habits, the shape of our cities, consumer purchasing patterns, common tastes and positions in intercourseby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2744
Four seasons fill the measure of the year; there are four seasons in the mind of manby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2743
Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleepby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2742
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishnessby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2720
A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this worldby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2718
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbishby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2707
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated itby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2698
There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only musicby: John KeatsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2692
It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2689
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the riskShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2687
Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2683
Repetition is the reality and the seriousness of lifeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2679
Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic, if it is pulled out I shall dieShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2675
There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becomingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2667
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its oppositeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2662
The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2660
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2657
Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2656
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedomShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2641
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2628
In the struggle between yourself and the world second the world.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2627
We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2623
The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a travelerby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2617
Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.by: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2616
I do not read advertisements. I would spend all of my time wanting thingsby: Franz KafkaShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2609
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the worldShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2605
I am not the least afraid to dieShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2603
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reasonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2600
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to changeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2597
In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring struggle for existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of selectionShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2596
We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existenceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2594
Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2580
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reasonby: Edward CokeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2575
Certainty is the mother of quiet and repose, and uncertainty the cause of variance and contentionsby: Edward CokeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2563
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly; devils fall because of their gravityShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2545
The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2541
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they actShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2540
The disadvantage of men not knowing the past is that they do not know the present. History is a hill or high point of vantage, from which alone men see the town in which they live or the age in which they are livingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2536
The most wonderful thing about miracles is that they sometimes happenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2533
Every act of will is an act of self-limitation. To desire action is to desire limitation. In that sense, every act is an act of self-sacrifice. When you choose anything, you reject everything elseShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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 vegetarianismby: Anton ChekhovShowing 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 respectedby: Anton ChekhovShowing 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 pleasurableby: Anton ChekhovShowing 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 affairsby: Andrew CarnegieShowing 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 bowelsby: Johannes CalvinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2390
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idolsby: Johannes CalvinShowing 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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Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and noveltyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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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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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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There may be heaven; there must be hell; meantime, there is our earth here - well!by: Robert BrowningShowing 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 loveby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2290
Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yetby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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There are times when patience proves at faultby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2282
The world and its way have a certain worthby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2281
Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my faceby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2276
Let age approve of youth, and death complete the sameby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2274
Where the heart lies, let the brain lie alsoby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions areby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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