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Quote 2255
So free we seem, so fettered fast we areby: Robert BrowningShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2253
I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength onby: Robert BrowningShowing 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 shockedby: Robert BrowningShowing 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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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 quarterby: Charlotte BronteShowing 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 itby: Charlotte BronteShowing 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 eyeby: Charlotte BronteShowing 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 revealedby: Charlotte BronteShowing 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 lastby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2209
I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases meby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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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 yearsby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2206
I feel monotony and death to be almost the sameby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2205
Look twice before you leapby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2204
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectationby: Charlotte BronteShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Better to be without logic than without feelingby: Charlotte BronteShowing 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-sightedby: Francis BeaumontShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2173
Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholyby: Francis BeaumontShowing 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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Heredity is nothing but stored environmentby: Luther BurbankShowing 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?by: Joseph ButlerShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2132
But to us, probability is the very guide of lifeby: Joseph ButlerShowing 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 purposeby: David BrainerdShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2100
Man's desires are limited by his perceptions; none can desire what he has not perceived.by: William BlakeShowing 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.by: William BlakeShowing 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 mindby: William BlakeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2088
What is now proved was once only imagined.by: William BlakeShowing 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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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 weeksby: John BarrymoreShowing 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 subsidizedby: John BarrymoreShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 2036
You never realize how short a month is until you pay alimonyby: John BarrymoreShowing 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 goodby: John BarrymoreShowing 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 silenceby: Dante AlighieriShowing 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 comeby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2009
The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise.by: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2005
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the groundby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 2000
In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lostby: Dante AlighieriShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1999
Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreamsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1959
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerableby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1958
There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve themby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1956
Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken ofby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1949
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotionby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1942
The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain forby: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1938
Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters.by: Jane AustenShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1908
Memory is the diary that we all carry about with usShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1906
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years oldShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1904
Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realising itShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1814
Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on themby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1809
We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would fain hurry over, that we may arrive at those several little settlements or imaginary points of rest which are dispersed up and down in itby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1806
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecutionby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1800
Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankindby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1794
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idolby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1787
Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, filling it with a steady and perpetual serenityby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1786
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessedby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1777
It is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who, by their rivalry for greatness, divided a whole ageby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1770
The important question is not what will yield to man a few scattered pleasures, but what will render his life happy on the whole amountby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1761
A cloudy day, or a little sunshine, have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunesby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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There is not so variable a thing in nature as a lady's head-dressby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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If we may believe our logicians, man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughterby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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No vices are so incurable as those which men are apt to glory inby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1728
I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the speciesby: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.by: Joseph AddisonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1720
Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the worldShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Morality is a private and costly luxuryShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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In plain words, chaos was the law of nature, order was the dream of man.”Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himselfShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of factsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1699
A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the worldShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1694
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidenceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Quote 1673
It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.by: Henry JamesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
Quote 1672
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.by: Thomas JeffersonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copiesShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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God cannot alter the past, though historians canby: Samuel ButlerShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.by: NapoleonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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While we are postponing, life speeds byShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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