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- Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and laws, as beautiful as roses.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant, systematic duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike and rejoice at what bring you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space and is inside us, like teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
- Boris Pasternak (1890 - 1960), Doctor Zhivago
- The course of life is unpredictable, no one can write his autobiography in advance.
- Rabbi Abraham Heschel
- The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Life is a struggle, but not a warfare.
- John Burroughs (1837 - 1921)
- My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964), "Some notes on my poetry" Collected Poems, 1957
- My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.
- Olive Schreiner (1855 - 1920)
- The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)
- I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935), Speech, May 30, 1884
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