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1. What shadows we are, and what what shadows we pursue!

 

Category:Life  

Author:Edmund Burke

2. At the close of life the question will be not, how much you have got, but how much you have given; not how much you have won, but how much you have done; not how much you have saved, but how much you have sacrificed; how much you have loved and served, not how much you were honored. ~~Nathan C. Schaeffer~~

 

Category:Life  

Author:Leaves of Gold

3. To have failed is to have striven, to have striven is to have grown.

 

Category:Life  

Author:Maltbie Davenport Babcock

4. A life without a purpose is a languid, drifting thing. Every day we ought to renew our purpose, saying to ourselves: This day let us make a sound beginning, for what we have hitherto done is nought.

 

Category:Life  

Author:Thomas A` Kempis

5. I have told you of the Spaniard who always put on his spectacles when about to eat cherries, that they might look more tempting. In like manner, I make the most of my enjoyments, and pack my troubles in as small a compass as I can.

 

Category:Life  

Author:Robert Southey

6. Now, believe me, God hides some ideal in every human soul. ~~Robert Collyer~~

 

Category:Life  

Author:Leaves of Gold

7. I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a prettier shell or a smoother pebble than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

 

Category:Life  

Author:Isaac Newton

8. Let it be remembered that steadfast application to a fixed aim is the law of a well-spent life.

 

Category:Life  

Author:Leaves of Gold

9. Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.

 

Category:Life  

Author:Leaves of Gold

10. Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule.

 

Category:Life  

Author:Samuel Butler