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“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
Anne Frank Quotes |
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“Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror”
Byrd Baggett Quotes |
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“Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think.”
Horace Quotes |
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“When we long for life without difficulties, remind us that oaks grow strong in contrary winds and diamonds are made under pressure”
Peter Marshall Quotes |
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“Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.”
John W. Gardner Quotes |
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“Don't worry about life, you're not going to survive it anyway.”
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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.]”
Unattributed Author Quotes 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.”
Unattributed Author Quotes Source: epigraph from Soundings by A. Hamilton Gibbs
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“Live fast, die young, leave a good-looking corpse.”
Unattributed Author Quotes 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.”
Unattributed Author Quotes 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.”
Unattributed Author Quotes 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.”
Diane Ackerman Quotes Source: quoted in "Newsweek"
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“The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.”
Douglas Adams Quotes 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.]”
Vittorio Alfieri Quotes 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.”
Henry Alford Quotes Source: Life's Answer
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“Every man's life is a fairy-tale written by God's fingers.”
Hans Christian Andersen Quotes Source: Preface to Works
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“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”
Hans Christian Andersen Quotes Source: Preface to Works
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“Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.”
Hans Christian Andersen Quotes 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?”
Archilochus Quotes 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.”
Aristotle Quotes 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.”
Edwin Arnold Quotes 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.”
Edwin Arnold Quotes 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.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Morality (st. 2)
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“This strange disease of modern life,
With its sick hurry, its divided aims.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Scholar-Gypsy (st. 21)
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“Saw life steadily and saw it whole.”
Matthew Arnold Quotes Source: Sonnet to a Friend, said of Sophocles
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