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- Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reason for living.
- Juvenal (55 AD - 127 AD)
- Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- It was once said that the moral test of Government is how that Government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
- The sands are number'd that make up my life.
- William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden (1854)
- Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
- Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)
- The bitterest tragic element in life to be derived from an intellectual source is the belief in a brute Fate or Destiny.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Natural History of Intellect (1893)
- Death hath so many doors to let out life.
- John Fletcher (1579 - 1625), The Custom of the Country (1647)
- As soon as there is life there is danger.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Society and Solitude (1870)
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