Life
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This, above all: Unto thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day, Thous canst not then be false to any man.
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William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
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Truth emerges more readily
from error than confusion.
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Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
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Life must be lived forwards,
But can only be understood backwards.
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Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
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Half the failures of life arise
from pulling in one's horse as it is leaping.
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Julius Hare (1795-1855)
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I shall be telling this with a sign,
Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, And I took the one less
traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
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Robert Frost (1874-1963)
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This could be such a beautiful
world if we could all care just a little more.
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Rosalind Welcher (1922- )
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We travel together,
passengers on a little space ship, dependent on its vulnerable supplies of air and soil,
preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work, and I will say the love,
we give our fragile craft.
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Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
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Fear less, hope more;
Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more;
Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
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Swedish Proverb
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The purpose of life
is the expansion of happiness.
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Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (1911?- )
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The world is a comedy
to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel.
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Horace Walpole (1717-1787)
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He who has a why to live can bear
almost any how.
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Fredrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
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For all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these, "It might have been."
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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
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