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Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
After old age had and sad,
Earth will slumber over us.
[Lat., Gaudeamus igitur,
Juvenes dum sumus
Post pucundam juventutem.
Post molestam senectutem.
Nos habetit humus.]
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: (John Addington Symonds' translation)
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Life is an uncharted ocean. The cautious mariner must needs take
Many soundings ere he conduct his barque to port in safety.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: epigraph from Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs
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Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: Knock On Any Door (Nick Romano character), in a movie
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Life's but a span, or a tale, or a word,
That in a trice, or suddaine, is rehearsed.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: The Roxburghe Ballads--A Friend's Advice (pt. II, edited by William Chappell)
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If you will do some deed before you die,
Remember not this caravan of death,
But have belief that every little breath
Will stay with you for an eternity.
Author: Unattributed Author
Source: The Roxburghe Ballads--A Friend's Advice (pt. II, edited by William Chappell)
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I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived
just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as
well.
Author: Diane Ackerman
Source: quoted in "Newsweek"
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The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.
Author: Douglas Adams
Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (ch. 27)
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Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.
[It., Spesso e da forte,
Piu che il morire, il vivere.]
Author: Vittorio Alfieri
Source: Oreste (IV, 2)
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I know not if the dark or bright
Shall be by lot;
If that wherein my hopes delight
Be best or not.
Author: Henry Alford
Source: Life's Answer
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Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Source: Preface to Works
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Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Source: Preface to Works
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Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
Author: Hans Christian Andersen
Source: Preface to Works
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save
A life which valour could not, from the grave.
A better buckler I can soon regain,
But who can get another life again?
Author: Archilochus
Source: Fragment (VI), see Plutarch's "Morals", vol. I, "Essay of the Laws, etc., of the Lacedemonians", one
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There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of
the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up
for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period
of barrenness.
Author: Aristotle
Source: Rhetoric (II, 15, par. III)
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Life, which all creatures love and strive to keep
Wonderful, dear and pleasant unto each,
Even to the meanest; yea, a boon to all
Where pity is, for pity makes the world
Soft to the weak and noble for the strong.
Author: Edwin Arnold
Source: Light of Asia
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We are the voices of the wandering wind,
Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
Lo! as the wind is so is mortal life,
A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife.
Author: Edwin Arnold
Source: Light of Asia
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With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day, and wish 'twere done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built as we discern.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Morality (st. 2)
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This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Scholar-Gypsy (st. 21)
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Saw life steadily and saw it whole.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles
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Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's
troublesome.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles
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They live that they may eat, but he himself [Socrates] eats that
he may live.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles
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We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are
here for, I do not know.
Author: Matthew Arnold
Source: Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles
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We come and we cry, and that is life; we yawn and we depart, and
that is death!
[Fr., On entre, on crie,
Et c'est la vie!
On baille, on sort,
Et c'est la mort!]
Author: Ausone de Chancel
Source: Line in an Album
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As a mortal, thou must nourish each of two forebodings--that
tomorrow's sunlight will be the last that thou shalt see; and
that for fifty years wilt live out thy life in ample wealth.
Author: Ausone de Chancel
Source: Line in an Album
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The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.
Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and
fears.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: Life--Preface to the Translation of Certain Psalms
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Start living now. Stop saving the good china for that special occasion. Stop withholding your love until that special person materializes. Every day you are alive is a special occasion. Every minute, every breath, is a gift from God.
Author: Mary Manin Morrissey
Source: None
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You've got to sing like you don't need the money, love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like no one is watching. It's gotta come from the heart, if you want it to work.
Author: Susannah Clark
Source: None
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Life is just part of the big picture.
Author: Alyson Goff
Source: None
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Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when you need a rest. You know what to get worked up about and what to get rid of. And you know when it's time to take care of yourself, for yourself. To do something that makes you stronger, faster, more complete. Because you know it's never too late to have a life. And never too late to change one.
Author: NIKE Advertisement
Source: None
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Beginnings are often scary, endings are often sad, but it's the middle that counts. You should remember that when you find yourself at the beginning.
Author: Steven Rogers
Source: None
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What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.
Author: Thomas Merton
Source: None
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The real malady is fear of life, not of death.
Author: Naguib Mahfouz
Source: None
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Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.
Author: Chief Seattle
Source: None
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Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Author: Richard Halloway
Source: None
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The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and richness to life that nothing else can bring.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Source: None
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If you are not the lead sled dog, the world looks pretty much the same every day.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong.
Author: Anonymous
Source: None
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A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.
Author: Donald Trump
Source: None
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Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.
Author: Alfred Hitchcock
Source: None
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It's not true that life is one damn thing after another; it is one damn thing over and over.
Author: Edna St Vincent Millay
Source: None
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Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
Source: None
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Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Author: Woody Allen
Source: None
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The hero is the one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.
Author: Felix Adler
Source: None
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: None
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The life that conquers is the life that moves with a steady resolution and persistence toward a predetermined goal. Those who succeed are those who have thoroughly learned the immense importance of plan in life, and the tragic brevity of time.
Author: W.J. Davison
Source: None
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The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop. The leaves of life keep falling one by one.
Author: Omar Khyyam
Source: None
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Death and taxes and childbirth. There's never any convenient time for any of them.
Author: Margaret Mitchell
Source: None
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The first hundred years are the hardest.
Author: William Mizner
Source: None
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Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife! Throughout the sensual world proclaim, One crowded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name.
Author: Thomas Osbert Mordaunt
Source: None
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St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Author: Malcom Muggeridge
Source: None
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