Quotes 2041 till 2060 of 4321.
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Life is a glass given to us to fill; a busy life is filling it with as much as it can hold; a hurried life has had more poured into it than it can contain.
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Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
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Life is easier to take than you think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable and bear the intolerable.
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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!
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Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
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Life is much shorter than I imagined it to be.
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Life is real! Life is earnest! And death is not its goal. Dust thou art, to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul.
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Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing.
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Life must be something more than dilettante speculation.
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Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.
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Life's more amusing than we thought.
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Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.
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Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
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Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.
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Like all great travellers I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Vivian Grey (1826) VIII, ch. 4 -
Like all other zealous reformers we do what we do because we like doing it better than anything else.
The almost perfect state -
Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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Like many successful people he made good use of disappointments - responding to them with energy, with near-frenzied activity, rather than needing to recover from them.
Trying to Save Piggy Sneed (1996) 248 -
Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.
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