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Quote 517
A man can die but once.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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: I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slaveryShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Life’s most presistent and urgent question is, “What are you doing for others?”Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statisticby: Josef StalinShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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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
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The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make oneby: Elbert HubbardShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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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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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
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My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happenedShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Sometimes even to live is an act of courageShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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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
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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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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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Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspentShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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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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Enjoy when you can, and endure when you mustShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are freeShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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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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Freedom means responsibility; that is the reason why most people are afraid of itShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The value of life ist not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet very littleShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertaintyShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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There are two levers to set a man in motion, fear and self-interestby: NapoleonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.Showing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanationsShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Life is too short to be smallShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The old believe everything; the middle aged suspect everything: the young know everythingShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.by: Abraham LincolnShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world brotherShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The best of prophets of the future is the pastShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Anything forced is not beautifulby: XenophonShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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There are only two tragedies in life. one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting itShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Memory is the diary that we all carry around with usShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growthShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughterShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Each of us bears his own hellby: VergilShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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The two most powerful warriors are patience and timeby: Leo TolstoiShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himselfby: Leo TolstoiShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human raceShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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I wasted time, and now doth time waste meShowing Quotes on Living and lifetime
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