• After all, life is really simple; we ourselves create the circumstances that complicate it.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 57 votes · 162 reads

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• All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.9 · 41 votes · 30 reads

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• Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.7 · 16 votes · 143 reads

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• An unexamined life is not worth living.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 24 reads

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• And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 18 reads

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• And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.2 · 27 votes · 76 reads

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• Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.2 · 64 votes · 46 reads

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• As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; They kill us for their sport.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.5 · 32 votes · 25 reads

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• Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 94 reads

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• Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 85 reads

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• Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  4.7 · 8 votes · 135 reads

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• Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.6 · 34 votes · 98 reads

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• Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.4 · 38 votes · 132 reads

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• Birth, copulation and death. That's all the facts when you come to the brass tacks.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 38 reads

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• But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 44 reads

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• Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.

  

  Victor Hugo

  PoetFrench1802 · 19th century

  4.5 · 49 votes · 68 reads

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• Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.0 · 11 votes · 45 reads

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• Deep down, no one really believes they have a right to live. But this death sentence generally stays tucked away, hidden beneath the difficulty of living. If that difficulty is removed from time to time, death is suddenly there, unintelligibly.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 78 reads

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• Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  3.9 · 63 votes · 164 reads

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• Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.7 · 34 votes · 68 reads

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• Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 120 reads

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• Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  3.6 · 59 votes · 0 reads

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• Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.2 · 49 votes · 176 reads

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• Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.5 · 55 votes · 160 reads

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• Every perfect life is a parable invented by God.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.1 · 24 votes · 156 reads

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• Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.5 · 52 votes · 65 reads

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• Everything has been figured out, except how to live.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 23 reads

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• First I was dying to finish high-school and start college. Then I was dying to finish college and start working. Next, I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school, so I could return to work. Finally, I was dying to retire. And now, I am dyin

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  Anonymous

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• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 19 reads

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• For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.7 · 10 votes · 139 reads

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• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.5 · 41 votes · 155 reads

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• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.1 · 15 votes · 65 reads

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• He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 36 votes · 140 reads

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• 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

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 117 reads

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• He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

  

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  Anonymous

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• However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 94 reads

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• I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.5 · 26 votes · 26 reads

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• I am so fresh in soul and spirit that life gushes and bubbles around me in a thousand springs.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  4.7 · 50 votes · 59 reads

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• I count life just a stuff to try the soul's strength on.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.0 · 26 votes · 90 reads

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• I didn't care what, how much adversity life threw at me. I intended to get to the top.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.3 · 18 votes · 181 reads

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• I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed m

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 143 reads

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• I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 11 votes · 71 reads

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• I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 92 reads

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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  Diane Ackerman

  WriterAmerican1948 · 20th century

  3.8 · 16 votes · 145 reads

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• I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.5 · 16 votes · 197 reads

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• I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 12 reads

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• I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 133 reads

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• I have wondered about time all my life.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 59 votes · 186 reads

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• I judge my life by how miserable it used to be. If I could pay my rent, I was deliriously happy. Now I'm deliriously happy all the time.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 183 reads

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• I love those who do not know how to live for today.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 119 reads

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• I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  5.0 · 54 votes · 3 reads

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• I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  3.4 · 26 votes · 97 reads

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• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.1 · 53 votes · 8 reads

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• I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 29 votes · 53 reads

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• I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.3 · 64 votes · 176 reads

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• I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.3 · 20 votes · 146 reads

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• I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 40 reads

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• I was a fairly good amateur musician, and I was an average professional. But the one thing I saw was that the big band business was fading. So I made an economic decision, and it turned out the best judgment I ever made in my life.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 146 reads

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• I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbour, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.4 · 49 votes · 13 reads

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• I will not leave South Africa, nor will I surrender. Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.1 · 58 votes · 34 reads

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• I'd say it's been my biggest problem all my life... it's money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.8 · 56 votes · 19 reads

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• If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.5 · 12 votes · 34 reads

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• If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.0 · 43 votes · 23 reads

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• If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 27 reads

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• If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose. So the one is pretty equal to the other.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 124 reads

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• If we live truly, we shall see truly.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 21 votes · 32 reads

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• If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.8 · 61 votes · 134 reads

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• If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.3 · 64 votes · 149 reads

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• If, after all, men cannot always make history have meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.6 · 24 votes · 88 reads

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• In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 142 reads

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• In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.8 · 60 votes · 110 reads

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• In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as birth certificates. You being there was certificate enough.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 133 reads

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• In the morning of life, work; in the mid day give council; in the evening, pray.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.3 · 41 votes · 78 reads

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• In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.3 · 25 votes · 92 reads

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 37 reads

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• Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 13 reads

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• Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.1 · 16 votes · 142 reads

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• It doesn't matter much where you live. It only matters how well you live when you're there

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 38 votes · 89 reads

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• It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 7 votes · 99 reads

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• It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 108 reads

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