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A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect.
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An aim in life is the only fortune worth the finding; and it is not to be found in foreign lands, but…
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I would rather do a good hours work weeding than write two pages of my best; nothing is so interesting as weeding.…
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I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me.
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Saints are sinners who kept on going.
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All sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth, and none, or almost none for the disenchantment of age.
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In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat…
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in…
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Death is given in a kiss; the dearest kindnesses are fatal; and into this life, where one thing preys upon another, the…
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To make our morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow…
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may…
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All error, not merely verbal, is a strong way of stating that the current truth is incomplete.
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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
— Josh Billings
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Our entire life - consists ultimately in accepting ourselves as we are.
— Jean Anouilh
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The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to…
— Thomas Aquinas
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The true aim of our Christian life consists in the acquisition of the Holy Spirit of God. As for fasts, and vigils,…
— Seraphim of Sarov
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Christian life consists of faith and charity
— Martin Luther
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Life consists of sadness too. And sadness is also beautiful; it has its own depth, its own delicacy, its own deliciousness, its…
— Rajneesh
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The first entirely vital action, so termed because it is not effected outside the influence of life, consists in the creation of…
— Claude Bernard
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Life consists in the sum of the functions, by which death is resisted.
— Marie Francois Xavier Bichat
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The happiness of life consists, like the day, not in single flashes (of light), but in one continuous mild serenity. The most…
— Jean Paul
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A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything…
— William Matthews
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I hardly exaggerate. Jewish life consists of two elements: Extracting money and protesting.
— Nahum Goldmann
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The Christian life consists in what God does for us, not what we do for God.
— Marva Dawn
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