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The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than all the discourses of philosophers…

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One of the most important lessons that experience teaches is that, on the whole, success depends more upon character than upon either…
Abortion... was probably regarded by the average Roman of the later days of Paganism much as Englishmen in the last century regarded…
There are some poisons which, before they kill men, allay pain and diffuse a soothing sensation through the frame. We may recognize…
Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human mind. .…
In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be as we…
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and…
Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit.
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would be so…
The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous…

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We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly… — Paramahansa Yogananda
The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life. — Mother Teresa
Though I may not be a king in my future life, so much the better: I shall nevertheless live an active life… — Frederick The Great
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest… — Leonard Bernstein
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the… — Alvin Lustig
Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb… — Dale Carnegie
Few men have led a more active life - bodily or mentally - from a constitutional anxiety for regularity, precision, and order,… — William Banting
In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that… — Isidore of Seville
Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon… — Ananda Coomaraswamy
I shall confess at the outset that it was only shortly after the beginning of this century that I entered active life… — Rene Cassin

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