Quotes with life-and-death

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  • Friedrich Nietzsche How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William E. Rothschild How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.
    William E. Rothschild
    American author (1933 - )
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  • Marcus Aurelius How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Carlo Collodi How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
    Adventures of Pinocchio. Ediz. Illustrata (2012 edition), Edimedia
    Carlo Collodi
    Italian author, humorist and journalist (1826 - 1890)
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  • Robert Cecil Day-Lewis How selfhood begins with a walking away, and love is proved in the letting go.
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  • Alexander Pope How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Alice James How sick one gets of being ''good,'' how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours; embody selfishness.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • John Milton How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Oscar Wilde How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he senses it. But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • George Macdonald How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Thomas à Kempis How sweet it is to love, and to be dissolved, and as it were to bathe myself in thy love.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • John Gay How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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  • Derek Wall How to be green? Many people have asked us this important question. It's really very simple and requires no expert knowledge or complex skills. Here's the answer. Consume less. Share more. Enjoy life.
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  • Dean William R. Inge How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive o all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Bjarne Stroustrup How to test? is a question that cannot be answered in general. When to test? however, does have a general answer: as early and as often as possible.
    The C++ Programming Language. p. 712
    Bjarne Stroustrup
    Danish computer scientist (1950 - )
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  • Percy Bysshe Shelley How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.
    Percy Bysshe Shelley
    English poet (1792 - 1822)
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  • Blaise Pascal How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Maya Angelou How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Baruch Spinoza How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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