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- However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and 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 (5 BC - 65 AD)
- There is no wealth but life.
- John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)
- That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.
- George Santayana (1863 - 1952)
- I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC)
- The game of life is not so much in holding a good hand as playing a poor hand well.
- H. T. Leslie
- Who would venture upon the journey of life, if compelled to begin it at the end?
- Madame de Maintenon
- Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner (1876 - 1933)
- He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many foulder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.
- Johnson
- Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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