Quotes with shortness

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• Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

  Baltasar Gracian
  Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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• The time of life is short: to spend that shortness basely were too long.

  William Shakespeare
  English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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• Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

  Lewis Mumford
  American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• intensities
• intensity
• shortness
• shoulders
• forgotten
• fullness

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