Quotes with life

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  • Thomas Carlyle Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Oscar Wilde Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Hepworth [My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life...
    Barbara Hepworth
    English artist and sculptor (1903 - 1975)
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  • William Wordsworth … with an eye made by quite by power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley ''I'' is a militant social tendency, working to hold and enlarge its place in the general current of tendencies. So far as it can it waxes, as all life does. To think of it as apart from society is a palpable absurdity of which no one could be guilty who really saw it as a fact of life.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Fred A. Allen A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Lewis Mumford A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Walter Bagehot A family on the throne is an interesting idea. It brings down the pride of sovereignty to the level of petty life.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Epicurus A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs...
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Albert Einstein A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Brandon Lee A large part of my life revolves around my dad. Sometimes, I even feel a strong sense of connection, something very tangible when I learn something new in the martial arts.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully to all life that is in need of help.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Albert Schweitzer A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Samuel Butler All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Butler All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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