Quotes: life
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
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'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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A child is beset with long traditions. And his infancy is so old, so old, that the mere adding of years in the life to follow will not seem to throw it further back - it is already so far.
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A judgment about life has no meaning except the truth of the one who speaks last, and the mind is at ease only at the moment when everyone is shouting at once and no one can hear a thing.
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A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.
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A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.
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A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love.
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A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope.
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Anton Chekhov
Russian playwright and short story writer
1860-1904
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
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All stereotypes turn out to be true. This is a horrifying thing about life. All those things you fought against as a youth: you begin to realize they're stereotypes because they're true.
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Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with.
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And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
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By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.
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