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There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have seemed an inexhaustible outpouring of books. Where to put them all? How to organize them on the groaning shelves? How to hold the profusion of knowledge in one's head? The loss of this plenitude would have been virtually inconceivable to anyone living in its midst. Then, not all at once but with the cumulative force of a mass extinction, the whole enterprise came to an end. What looked... Stephen Greenblatt
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives. Jane Austen
But as with so many things in our lives, the reason for doing something is not the important thing. It is the fact of doing that remains. Dan Simmons
It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile. Vincent Van Gogh
Leo Buscaglia quote: "A life lived in love will never be dull."
A life lived in love will never be dull. Leo Buscaglia
Neither the dissipations of the past--and she had lived very much in the world, nor the restrictions of the present; neither sickness nor sorrow seemed to have closed her heart or ruined her spirits. Jane Austen
If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you’ll have a wonderful time doing it. Eleanor Roosevelt
Marcus Aurelius quote: "Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right..."
Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature. Marcus Aurelius
Norman Vincent Peale quote: "Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill..."
Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living. Norman Vincent Peale
I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life; I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. Theodore Roosevelt
CHORUS: You that live in my ancestral Thebes, behold this Oedipus,- him who knew the famous riddles and was a man most masterful; not a citizen who did not look with envy on his lot- see him now and see the breakers of misfortune swallow him! Look upon that last day always. Count no mortal happy till he has passed the final limit of his life secure from pain. Sophocles
Dwight L. Moody quote: "A man ought to live so that everybody will know he is a..."
A man ought to live so that everybody will know he is a Christian. Dwight L. Moody
Michael Cunningham quote: "It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a..."
It's the world, you live in it, even if some boy has made a fool of you. Michael Cunningham
By the toll of a billion deaths man has bought his birthright of the earth, and it is his against all comers; it would still be his were the Martians ten times as mighty as they are. For neither do men live nor die in vain. H. G. Wells
Love We Must Part. Love, we must part now: do not let it be. Calamitous and bitter. In the past. There has been too much moonlight and self-pity: Let us have done with it: for now at last. Never has sun more boldly paced the sky, Never were hearts more eager to be free, To kick down worlds, lash forests; you and INo longer hold them; we are husks, that see. The grain going forward to a different use. There is regret. Always, there is regret. But it is better that our lives unloose, As two... Philip Larkin

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