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... a unique endeavour
To bring to bloom the million-petalled flower
Of being here. More
... asks what it’s too late to ask:
“Where is my life? Where is my life?
What have I... More
... automatically, worn out by the gloomy day and by the perspective of a sad tomorrow, I put in... More
... it is the greatest of all mistakes to begin life with the expectation that it is going to be... More
... it is true that I do not respect [human life] more than I respect my own life. And if it is... More
... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it... More
... Live!/and have your blooming in the noise of the whirlwind. More
... our lives are like soap operas. We can go for months and not tune in to them, then six months... More
... religion (ought to be if it isn’t) a great deal more than mere gratification of the... More
... that’s what living happens to be ... the physiological denial of reverence and good manners... More
... the basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation. More
... the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don’t want to do, and,... More
... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to... More
... the precipitate of sorrow is happiness, the precipitate of struggle is success. Life means... More
... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one... More
... we, like so many others who think more of working than of dying, care only to push on... More
...for [God] makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the righteous and... More
...here he is, fully alive, and it is hard to picture him fully dead. Death is thirty-three hours... More
...let the dead bury their own dead. More
...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life. More
3rd Fisherman. I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
1st Fisherman. Why, as men do a-land:... More
A creature not too bright or good
For human nature’s daily food;
For transient sorrows,... More
A goldfish is reason enough for living, if someone needs a reason. More
A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair—a process in time. It is good as a... More
A human being is only breath and shadow. More
A letter with it
discloses, in its words and between them,
a life opening, fearful,... More
A life I didn’t choose
chose me: even
my tools are the wrong ones
for what I have... More
A lifeless planet. And yet, yet still serving a useful purpose, I hope. Yes, a sun. Warming the... More
A lifetime of cleverness can be interrupted by moments of stupidity. More
A light heart lives long. More
A living man is blind and drinks his drop.
What matter if the ditches are impure?
What... More
A man’s whole life is taxed for the least thing well done. It is its net result. More
A mere trifle consoles us for a mere trifle distresses us. More
A moment that gave not only itself, but
Also the means of keeping it, of not turning to... More
A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble, comes up like a flower and withers,... More
A person taking stock in middle age is like an artist or composer looking at an unfinished work;... More
A poor life is better than a good death. More
A slight relax of air. All is not dead. More
A thoroughbred business man cannot enter heartily upon the business of life without first looking... More
A: What is the meaning of life? B: I know, but I won’t tell you. More
Ah earth you old extinguisher. More
All I want is the moon, Helicon. I know in advance what will kill me. I have not yet exhausted... More
All life long, the same questions, the same answers. More
All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they... More
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think... More
All of our lives is a rebus
Of little wooden animals painted shy,
Terrific colors,... More
All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes,... More
All rivers, even the most dazzling, those that catch the sun in their course, all rivers go down... More
All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. More
All that people have they will give to save their lives. More
All the accumulations of life, that wear us out—clocks,
bodies, consciousness, shoe,... More
all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. More
Along a parabola life like a rocket flies,
Mainly in darkness, now and then on a rainbow. More
Although there is no universal agreement as to a definition of life, its biological... More
Amen. So be it. Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of... More
Among the many gifts I showered on Martin, I was careful not to include talent. How easy it would... More
An hour of winter day might seem too short
To make it worth life’s while to wake and sport. More
And as she died so must we die ourselves,
And thence ye may perceive the world’s a... More
And by another year,
Such as God knows, with freer air,
More fruits and fairer... More
And die of nothing but a rage to live. More
And he thought to himself...., ‘Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat,... More
And I live on, but in grief and self-contempt,
Left here without the light I loved so... More
And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still... More
And if joy were not on the earth,
There were an end of change and birth,
And Earth and... More
And life, the flicker of men and moths and the wolf on the hill,
Though furious for... More
And now that we have returned to the desultory life of the plain, let us endeavor to import a... More
And so you have found out that secret—one of the deep secrets of Life—that all, that is... More
And that enquiring man John Synge comes next,
That dying chose the living world for... More
And the serial continues:
Pain, expiation, delight, more pain,
A frieze that lengthens... More
And whether life had been before that sleep
The Heaven which I imagine, or a... More
And, “Better defeat almost,
If seen clear,
Than life’s victories of doubt
That... More
Another time I go outside
Into the world. It rocks on and on.
It was rocking before I saw... More
Art is not living. It is the use of living. More
Artists, whatever their medium, make selections from the abounding materials of life, and... More
As for adopting the ways which the State has provided for remedying the evil, I know not of such... More
As for me, then, I love life and cultivate it just as God has been pleased to grant it to us. More
As I ebb’d with the ocean of life,
As I wended the shores I know,
As I walk’d where... More
As I look at the human story I see two stories. They run parallel and never meet. One is of... More
As long as green hills are there, never fear a shortage of firewood. More
At my years, and with my disposition, or rather, constitution, one gets to care less and less for... More
Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of Kings.
Let... More
Awakening in the morning returns us to life, and to awareness of death. More
Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time,... More
Begin thinking of death and you are no longer sure of your life. It’s a Hebrew proverb. More
Being fooled, by foolery thrive;
There’s place and means for every man alive. More
Being young you have not known
The fool’s triumph, nor yet
Love lost as soon as... More
Belonging to oneself—the whole essence of life lies in that. More
Better not to exist than live basely. More
Better not touch our friend here while I’m gone. Let him rest in peace—while he can. More
Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go. More
Between two worlds life hovers like a star,
‘Twixt night and morn, upon the horizon’s verge. More
Birth, and copulation, and death.
That’s all the facts when you come to brass tacks:
... More
Blotting the sun
Stinging the eyes.
The hot seeds steam underground
still alive. More
Books; china; a life
Reprehensibly perfect. More
Boss, life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to undo your belt and look for trouble. More
But all subsists by elemental strife;
And Passions are the elements of Life. More
But by the grace of God I am what I am... More
But gathering as we stray, a sense
Of Life, so lovely and intense,
It lingers when we... More
But it is the same thing we are all seeing,
Our world. Go after it,
Go get it boy, says... More
But men labor under a mistake. The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for... More

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