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I worked for a menial's hire, Only to learn, dismayed, That any wage I had asked of Life, Life would have paid. - Jessie B. Rittenhouse, My Wage A man either lives life as it happens to him, meets it head-on and licks it, or he turns his back on it and starts to wither away. - Gene Roddenberry In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who pre-eminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life. - Theodore Roosevelt, at Appomattox Day celebration of the Hamilton Club of Chicago I must plough my furrow alone. - Lord Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, in a speech This life is but the passage of a day, This life is but a pang and all is over; But in the life to come which fades not away Every love shall abide and every lover. - Christina Georgina Rossetti, Saints and Angels The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years, but the one with the richest experiences. - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge. - Bertrand Arthur William Russell Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long. - Rachel Russell (Lady Russell) Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery Life is an error-making and an error-correcting process, and nature in marking man's papers will grade him for wisdom as measured both by survival and by the quality of life of those who survive. - Jonas Salk The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.] - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Catilina (I) No one has become immortal by sloth; nor has any parent prayed that his children should live forever; but rather that they should lead an honorable and upright life. [Lat., Ignavia nemo immortalis factus: neque quisquam parens liberis, uti aeterni forent, optavit; magis, uti boni honestique vitam exigerent.] - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus), Jugurtha (LXXXV) Our lives are like a candle in the wind. - Carl Sandburg That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions. - George Santayana There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. - George Santayana, Soliloquies in England--War Shrines Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born, A helpless Babe, to greet the light With a sharp wail, as if the morn Foretold a cloudy noon and night; To weep, to sleep, and weep again, With sunny smiles between; and then? - John Godfrey Saxe, The Story of Life O God, how lovely still is life! - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims. [Ger., Wir, wir leben! Unser sind die Stunden Und der Lebende hat Recht.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, An die Freude (st. 1) 'Tis not the mere stage of life but the part we play thereon that gives the value. [Ger., Nicht der Tummelplatz des Lebens--sein Gehalt bestimmt seinen Werth.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Fiesco (III, 2) Life did not present its sunny side to thee. [Ger., Nicht seine Freundenseite kehrte dir Das Leben zu.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Marie Stuart (II, 3, 136) Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe. - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Proverbs of Confucius, (Bowring's translation) The May of life blooms once and never again. [Ger., Des Lebens Mai bluht einmal und nicht wieder.] - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Resignation (st. 2), Opportunity O'er Ocean, with a thousand masts, sails forth the stripling bold-- One boat, hard rescued from the deep, draws into port the old! - Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, Votive Tablets--Expectation and Fulfilment Displaying page 19 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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