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Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause He noblest lives and noblest dies who makes and keeps his self - Made laws.

Sir Richard Francis Burton

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to take an example for himself.

Terence, Adelphoe

The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.

Georges Bernanos, "Why Freedom? " The Last Essays of Georges Bernanos, 1955

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Horace

Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.

Conte Vittorio Alfieri

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.

Roosevelt, Eleano

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

W. H. Auden

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H. L. Mencken

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Roosevelt, Eleano

In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.

S. I. Hayakawa

I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You cannot live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

John Wooden

Man can live far from God - - Not outside God. God is wherever we are. Even in suffering? Even in suffering.

Elie Wiesel, The Perils of Indifference

The primary task of the Church is not to mend the manners of the community, but to proclaim the matchless Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. When men hear that Gospel and believe it, their lives will give evidence of their faith.

Walter Dale Langtry

Nature often holds up a mirror so we can see more clearly the ongoing processes of growth, renewal, and transformation in our lives.

Mary Ann Brussat

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Lin Yutang

Fine art and pizza delivery, what we do falls neatly in between!

David Letterman

If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real.

Jacques Martin Barzun

It is slavery to live in the mind unless it has become part of the body.

Kahlil Gibran

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat.

Socrates

A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.

Jackie Robinson, baseball playe

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

States should have the right to enact... laws... particularly to end the inhumane practice of ending a life that otherwise could live.

George W. Bush, Gov. of Texas, state leading in executions

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Plato

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

Publilius Syrus

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

Woody Allen

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Hermann Broch

He lives not long who battles with the immortals, nor do his children prattle about his knees when he has come back from battle and the dread fray.

Homer, The Iliad

What can I wish to the youth of my country who devote themselves to science? ... Thirdly, passion. Remember that science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

Ivan Pavlov

God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjld

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.

Jack Kerouac, On the Road

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self - Discipline with all of them came first.

Harry S Truman

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer, The Iliad

As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.

Henry David Thoreau

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Pearl Sydenstricker Buck

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw