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Lived Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- The great ideals of the past failed not by being outlived (which must mean over-lived), but by not being lived enough. Mankind has not passed…
- You!" he cried. "You never hated because you never lived. I know what you are all of you, from first to last--you are the people…
- The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts, without…
- St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, ‘I have understood every page…
- We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But what are we to say of…
- The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales…
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- No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Tomorrow is nothing, today is too late; the good lived yesterday. — Marcus Aurelius
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman
- Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times… — Ansel Adams
- One of the places where we lived when I was growing up had this big wood out the back. And starting when… — Christian Bale
- Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he… — P T Barnum
- We lived, until I was 12 or so, in communal apartment with five different families and the same kitchen, in two little… — Mikhail Baryshnikov