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Life is a pill which none of us can bear to swallow without gilding
Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent
Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment
Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified
It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time
I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquaintance
Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed
Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what tomorrow may produce
We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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