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Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life can only be understood back- wards; but it must be lived forwards.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.
Life is like wind. When it blows, it washes everything away, so clutch onto what you are holding.
Life is like wind. When it blows, it washes everything away, so clutch onto what you are holding.
Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's over read more
Clay lies still but blood's a rover; Breath's a ware that will not keep. Up, lad; when the journey's over There'll be time enough for sleep.
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of read more
A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its read more
Were it offered to my choice, I should have no objection to a repetition of the same life from its beginning, only asking the advantages authors have in a second edition to correct some faults in the first.
Old age is just a record of one\'s whole life.
Old age is just a record of one\'s whole life.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.
