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Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves than with others. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Plunge boldly into the thick of life! each lives it; not to many is it known; and seize, it where you will, it is interesting. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The childhood of immortality. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe The fine emotions whence our lives we mold Lie in the earthly tumult dumb and cold. [Ger., Die uns das Leben gaben, herrliche Gefuhle, Erstarren in dem irdischen Gewuhle.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (I, 1, 286) A useless life is an early death. [Ger., Ein unnutz Leben ist ein fruher Tod.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia auf Tauris (I, 2, 63) My worthy friend, gray are all theories And green alone Life's golden tree. [Ger., Grau, theurer Freund, ist alle Theorie Und grun des Lebens goldner Baum.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Iphigenia auf Tauris (I, 2, 63) Sing it not in mournful numbers. [Ger., Singet nicht in Trauertonen.] - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm Meister--Philine Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. - Oliver Goldsmith All the bloomy flush of life is fled. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (128) The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form. - Oliver Goldsmith, The Traveller (l. 138) It all balances. - Frank Goodall I would live the same life over if I had to live again, And the chances are I go where most men go. - Adam Lindsay Gordon Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone: Kindness in another's trouble Courage in our own. - Adam Lindsay Gordon, Ye Weary Wayfarer--Finis Exoptatus Along the cool sequestered vale of life, They kept the noiseless tenour of their way. - Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (st. 19) I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. - Stephen Grellet (Etienne de Grellet du Mobillier), not found in his writings, often attributed as of unknown authorship Life's little ironies. - Thomas Hardy, title of a collection of stories When I hear somebody say 'Life is hard', I am always tempted to ask 'Compared to what?' - Sydney J. Harris Life is the offspring of death. - Moses Harvey [George Herbert] a conspicuous example of plain living and high thinking. - Mrs. Hugh R. Haweis, Sermon on George Herbert, in "Evenings for the People" Life is a continued struggle to be what we are not, and to do what we cannot. - William Hazlitt (1) Life is the art of being well deceived; and in order that the deception may succeed it must be habitual and uninterrupted. - William Hazlitt (1) He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. - Ben Hecht Life is pain, so live it up while you can. - Ernest Hemingway Who but knows How it goes! Life's a last year's rose. - William Ernest Henley, Echoes (XLV) Life is a smoke that curls-- Curls in a flickering skein, That winds and whisks and whirls, A figment thin and vain, Into the vast inane. One end for hut and hall. - William Ernest Henley, Of the Nothingness of Things Displaying page 10 of 26 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
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