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01c. 1790 AD

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.

Goethe / quote

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02c. 32 AD

I will govern my life, and my thoughts, as if the whole world were to see the one, and to read the other; for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God (who is the searcher of our hearts) all our privacies are open?

Seneca / quote

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03c. 32 AD

Indolence is stagnation; employment is life.

Seneca / quote

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04c. 1590 AD

O Lord, that lends me life, lend me a heart replete with thankfulness.

William Shakespeare / quote

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05c. 1842 AD

Manners are the happy ways of doing things; each one a stroke of genius or of love, now repeated and hardened into usage, they form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are the dew-drops which give such a depth to the morning meadows.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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06c. 1590 AD

I love my country's good, with a respect more tender, more holy and profound, than my own life.

William Shakespeare / quote

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07c. 32 AD

Philosophy is the art and law of life, and it teaches us what to do in all cases, and, like good marksmen, to hit the white at any distance.

Seneca / quote

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08c. 32 AD

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Seneca / quote

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09c. 1590 AD

Repentance is heart's sorrow, and a clear life ensuing.

William Shakespeare / quote

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10c. 75 BC

A perverse temper and fretful disposition will, wherever they prevail render any state of life whatsoever unhappy.

Cicero / quote

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11c. 75 BC

I am not at all uneasy that I came into, and have so far passed my course in this world; because I have so lived in it that I have reason to believe I have been of some use to it; and when the close comes, I shall quit life as I would an inn, and not as a real home. For nature appears to me to have ordained this station here for us, as a place of sojournment, a transitory abode only, and not as a fixed settlement or permanent habitation.

Cicero / quote

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12c. 1745 AD

If the life and death of Socrates were those of a sage, the life and death of Jesus were those of a God.

Jean Jacques Rousseau / quote

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13c. 1790 AD

A belief in the Bible, the fruit of deep meditation, has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found it a capital safely invested, and richly productive of interest.

Goethe / quote

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14c. 1790 AD

Academical years ought by rights to give occupation to the whole mind. It is this time which, well or ill employed, affects a man's whole after-life.

Goethe / quote

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15c. 1790 AD

A new life begins when a man once sees with his own eyes all that before he has but partially read or heard of.

Goethe / quote

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16c. 1593 AD

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Francis Bacon / quote

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17c. 1593 AD

Atheism is rather in the life than in the heart of man.

Francis Bacon / quote

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18c. 1842 AD

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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19c. 1642 AD

Between us and hell or heaven there is nothing but life, which of all things is the frailest.

Blaise Pascal / quote

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20c. 1842 AD

Character is higher than intellect. Thinking is the function; living is the functionary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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21c. 1842 AD

Courage, or the degree of life, is as the degree of circulation of the blood in the arteries.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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22c. 1842 AD

Culture, aiming at the perfection of the man as the end, degrades everything else, as health and bodily life, into means.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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23c. 1790 AD

Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book.

Goethe / quote

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24c. 1842 AD

Ennui shortens life and bereaves the day of its light.

Ralph Waldo Emerson / quote

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