Life Quotes

The big one. What it means, how to live it, and why it's worth the effort.

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"The greatest achievement is to live with integrity and purpose."
Frances Burney
"The best provision for old age is a well-spent youth."
Daniel Defoe
"When a man acts against his nature, he acts against his destiny."
Daniel Defoe
"Life is a precious gift meant to be lived fully."
Eliza Haywood
"Life's greatest lesson is learning to let go."
Eliza Haywood
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"Bread is the staff of life."
Jonathan Swift
"Necessity has a way of forcing us to choose."
Aphra Behn
"A life without love is no life at all."
Aphra Behn
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"No creature is fully employed whose passions are not engaged."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"We are all works in progress."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."
Samuel Johnson
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"Every man naturally desires to live as long as he can."
Samuel Johnson
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"Living well requires living thoughtfully."
Samuel Johnson
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"The architect of one's own misery is often oneself."
Samuel Johnson
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"The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"We are all dying every moment."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Energy is Eternal Delight."
William Blake
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"Every Night & every Morn some to Misery are Born."
William Blake
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"He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man."
William Blake
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"Abstinence sows sand all over the red fruit of the vine."
William Blake
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"I Sing the Body electric"
William Blake
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"I have mental joy & I have mental strife."
William Blake
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"The great object of life is sensation - to feel that we exist."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Oh, to be worn out by the world, to be cast aside and forgotten."
Christina Rossetti
"Life is not a dream. But it may be made to approach to one."
Christina Rossetti
"All things pass, all things return."
Christina Rossetti
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"The gift of life is the opportunity to grow."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old."
Jonathan Swift
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"Youth is the first act in the play of life."
Jonathan Swift