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“Age does not protect you from love. But love to some extent protects you from age.”
“And remember my sentimental friend that a heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others.”
“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall no...”
“We come and we cry and that is life we yawn and we depart and that is death!”
“It matters not how long we live but how.”
“It is a misery to be born a pain to live a trouble to die.”
“Hurried and worried until we're buried and there's no curtain call Life's a very funny proposition after all.”
“For life in general there is but one decree: youth is a blunder manhood a struggle old age a regret.”
“Out of sleeping a waking Out of waking a sleep.”
“Life is a tragedy for those who feel and a comedy for those who think.”
“Every life is many days day after day. We walk through ourselves meeting robbers ghosts giants old men young men wives widows brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.”
“Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream!”
“My candle burns at both ends It will not last the night But ah my foes and oh my friends - It gives a lovely light.”
“Life is the game that must be played: This truth at least good friends we know So live and laugh nor be dismayed As one by one the phantoms go.”
“I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”
“As is a tale so is life: not how long it is but how good it is is what matters.”
“Out out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.”
“Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled But yet I like the game and want to play.”
“Men know life too early women know life too late.”
“We’re all broken. We all have cracks. It’s not about making it through life in one piece it’s about narrowing the gap between the fissures so we don’t shatter.”Ted Basel to Jo Nehr in my next "Surr...”