Quotes with life-affirming

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  • Philip Roth He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.
    American Pastoral
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • John Aubrey He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his reading. He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.
    John Aubrey
    English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer (1626 - 1697)
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  • Samuel Butler He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Johnson He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Johnson He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oscar Wilde He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Hector Hugh Munro He spends his life explaining from his pulpit that the glory of Christianity consists in the fact that though it is not true it has been found necessary to invent it.
    Hector Hugh Munro
    British Novelist, Writer (1870 - 1916)
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  • William Shakespeare He that cuts off twenty years of life cuts off so many years of fearing death.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Johnson He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.''
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Francis Quarles He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Iris Murdoch He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature… is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • William Blake He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Thomas Szasz He who does not accept and respect those who want to reject life does not truly accept and respect life itself.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Victor Hugo He who every morning plans the transaction of the day and follows out the plan, carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Boethius He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to good and bad: his countenance unconquered he can shew.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Muhammad Ali He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Horace He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche He who lives by fighting with an enemy has an interest in the preservation of the enemy's life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Karl Kraus He who sleeps half a day has won half a life.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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