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He who has calmly reconciled his life to fate, and set proud death beneath his feet, can look fortune in the face, unbending both to…
— Boethius
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No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from which to look back…
— Woodrow Wilson
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There is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest, for there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion.
— Christopher Smart
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Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament with proper dispositions,…
— Louis of Granada
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A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it…
— Murray Kempton
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[Young] was afterwards accustomed to say, that at no period of his life was he particularly fond of repeating experiments, or even of very frequently…
— Unknown Author
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Like Molière's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware…
— Ernest Nagel
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...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of…
— Pope John XXIII
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far…
— Augustus De Morgan
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Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man possess these, let…
— Wilford Woodruff
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equally real at all stages of his life; specifically, the fact that a particular stage is present cannot be regarded as conferring on it any…
— Thomas Nagel
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A warrior knows that he is only a man. His only regret is that his life is so short that he can't grab onto all…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in…
— Albert Schweitzer
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...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is…
— Barbara G. Walker
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If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
— Dogen
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A man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied; he must know how to disengage what is essential from the…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the…
— Harun Yahya
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But let us say he was (guilty). Let us for a moment say he was (guilty). What justice would there be to take his life?…
— Ernest Gaines
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When a man sees his end, he wants to know there was some purpose to his life.
— Richard Harris
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I'm just feeling like it was meant to be. What can I say? The birth of my son, and in the first year of his…
— Drew Brees
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The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life-until he fell in love with Christ and gave all his stuff away and became…
— Peter Kreeft
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Why had his mother gone to the trouble of bringing him into the world if the most exciting moment in his life was having been…
— Félix J. Palma
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Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
— Charles Darwin
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The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world. We marry…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Neither democracy nor effective representation is possible until each participant in the group...devotes a measurable part of his life to furthering its existence.
— Lewis Mumford
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