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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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  • Buddha He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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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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  • Dhammapada He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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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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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Victor Hugo He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Akhenaton Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.
    Akhenaton
    Egyptian King, Monotheist (1372 - 1337)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
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  • Barbara Kingsolver Her body moved with the frankness that comes from solitary habits. But solitude is only a human presumption. Every quiet step is thunder to beetle life underfoot; every choice is a world made new for the chosen. All secrets are witnessed.
    Prodigal Summer
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • A. E. Housman Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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