Knowledge, love, power, there is the complete life. 3195 Amiel: Journal, April 7, 1851. Ward, Translator.) (Mrs. Humphrey Life passes through us; we do not possess it. 3196 Amiel: Journal, June 23, 1869. (Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Translator.) When life ceases to be a promise it does not cease to be a task; its true name even is trial. 3197 Amiel: Journal, Jan. 29, 1866. (Mrs. Humphrey Our life is twofold. 3198 Auerbach: On the Heights. (Bennett, Translator.) O Life! an age to the miserable, a moment to the happy. 3199 Bacon: Moral and Historical Works. Ornamenta Rationalia. That is not God asks no man whether he will accept life. the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. 3200 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Life is a plant that grows out of death. 3201 Henry Ward Beecher: Proverbs from Plymouth We sleep, but the loom of life never stops; and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. 3202 Henry Ward Beecher: Life Thoughts. Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind; death and birth are the vesper and the matin bells, that summon mankind to sleep, and to rise refreshed for new advancement. 3203 Carlyle: Sartor Resartus. Organic Filaments. One life, - a little gleam of time between two eternities. 3204 Carlyle: Heroes and Hero Worship. The Hero as Man of Letters. Life is a fragment, a moment between two eternities, influenced by all that has preceded, and to influence all that follows. The only way to illumine it is by extent of view. 3205 William Ellery Channing: Note-Book. Life. Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing, and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase. 3206 Congreve: Love for Love. Act iv. Sc. 20. Life is a rich strain of music suggesting a realm be. too fair to Newport. 3207 George William Curtis: Lotus-Eating. Life is the best thing we can possibly make of it. It is dull and dismal and heavy if a man loses his temper; it is glowing with promise and satisfaction if he is not ashamed of his emotions. 3208 George William Curtis: Lotus-Eating. Saratoga. Life's a tumble-about thing of ups and downs. 3209 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Sybil. Bk. i. Ch. 8. One should never think of death. One should think of life. That is real piety. 3210 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield): Endymion. Ch. 27. Happy will it be for us all if the old mansion which we call life, receiving thus the full tribute of its earlier and lustier days, can make its summer serve its winter, and in its ripe October can be sure that all is well. 3211 Samuel Willoughby Duffield: Essay. Apple-Tree Life expresses. A statue has no tongue, and needs none. 3212 Emerson: Conduct of Life. Behavior. Life is not long enough for art, not long enough for friendship. 3213 Emerson: Newspaper Report of a Lecture delivered before the Parker Fraternity, Dec. 6, 1870. Choose the best life, for custom (habit) will make it pleasant. 3214 Epictetus: Fragments. CXLIV. (Long, Trans.) Life may as properly be called an art as any other, and the great incidents in it are no more to be considered as mere accidents than the severest members of a fine statue or a noble poem. 3215 Fielding: Amelia. Bk. i. Ch. 1. Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. 3216 Benjamin Franklin: Poor Richard's Almanac. Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over. 3217 Oliver Goldsmith: The Good-Natured Man. Act i. Life is the offspring of death. 3218 Moses Harvey: Lectures on the Harmony of Science and Revelation. What is life but the choice of that good which contains the least of evil! 3219 B. R. Haydon: Table Talk. Life is but another name for action; and he who is without opportunity exists, but does not live. 3220 George S. Hillard: Six Months in Italy. Ch. 31. Life is not victory, but battle. 3221 Roswell D. Hitchcock: Eternal Atonement. II. Who Can Forgive Sins ? And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. 3222 Thomas Hobbes: The Leviathan. Pt. i. Ch. 13. A social life which worships God, and pursues the good of men, is a Christian social life. 3223 J. G. Holland: Plain Talks on Familiar Subjects. II. Fashion. Life, as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence where it comes on soundings. 3224 Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast-Table. Ch. 5. Victor Hugo: The Toilers of the Sea. A life of pleasure cannot support itself so long as one of business, but is much more subject to satiety and disgust. 3226 Hume Essays. XVII. The Sceptic. Life, upon the whole, is far more pleasurable than painful, otherwise we should not feel pain so impatiently when it comes. 3227 Leigh Hunt: Table Talk. Eating. Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed. 3228 Johnson: Rasselas. Ch. 11. The whole of life is but keeping away the thoughts of death. 3229 Johnson: Boswell's Life of Johnson. II. 93. (George Birkbeck Hill, Editor, 1887.) To him that lives well every form of life is good. 3230 Johnson: Rasselas. Ch. 21. Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who expect that age will perform the promises of youth, and that the deficiencies of the present day will be supplied by the morrow; attend to the history of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia. 3231 Johnson: Rasselas. Ch. 1. There is nothing of which men are so fond, and withal so careless, as life. 3232 La Bruyère: Characters. Translator.) Of Man. (Rowe, The blanks as well as the prizes must be drawn in the cheating lottery of life. 3233 Le Sage. Gil Blas. Bk. iv. Ch. 2. (Smollett, Where one man shapes his life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have it shaped for them by impulse and by circumstances. 3234 Lowell: Among My Books. Shakespeare Once Life in itself is neither good nor evil: it is the scene of good or evil, as you make it; and if you have lived a long day, you have seen all. One day is equal and like all other days: there is no other light, no other night. This very sun, this moon, these very stars, this very order and revolution of things, are all the same your ancestors enjoyed, and that shall also entertain your posterity. 3235 Montaigne: Essays. Bk. i. Ch. 19. (Hazlitt, In a life which has a meaning in it, past and future sustain each other. 3236 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. I. The Pattern in the Mount. The problem of life is to make the ideal real, and convert the divine at the summit of the mountain into the human at its base. 3237 Charles H. Parkhurst: Sermons. I. The Pattern in the Mount. Between us and hell or heaven there is nothing but life, which of all things is the frailest. 3238 Pascal: Thoughts. Ch. 1. (Wight, Translator. Louandre edition.) Life is a campaign, not a battle, and has its defeats as well as its victories. 3239 Donn Piatt: The Lone Grave of the Shenandoah, and Other Tales. Mr. Bardolph Bottles. Life is a stream upon which drift flowers in spring, and blocks of ice in winter. 3240 No. 6. Joseph Roux: Meditations of a Parish Priest. To live is not merely to breathe, it is to act. 3241 Rousseau: Emile. (Eleanor Worthington, Trans.) Born for a very brief space of time, we regard this life as an inn which we are soon to quit that it may be made ready for the coming guest. 3242 Seneca: Minor Dialogues. Bk. vi. Of Consolation. (Stewart, Translator.) Ch. 21. Life is a warfare. 3243 Seneca: Works. Epistles. No. 96. (Thomas Lodge, Editor.) Life, it is thanks to death that I hold thee so dear. 3244 Seneca: Minor Dialogues. Bk. vi. Of Consolation. (Stewart, Translator.) Ch. 20. Life is a shuttle. 3245 Shakespeare: The Merry Wives of Windsor. O excellent! I love long life better than figs. 3246 Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra. Act i. Sc. 2. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our virtues. 3247 Shakespeare: All's Well that Ends Well. They only have lived long who have lived virtuously. If we were to live here always, with no other care than how to feed, clothe, and house ourselves, life would be a very sorry business. It is immeasurably heightened by the solemnity of death. 3249 Alexander Smith: Dreamthorp. Death and Dying. God is the giver, life a partnership, humanity a brotherhood. 3250 Timothy Titcomb (J. G. Holland): Gold-Foil. Only those live who do good. Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful. 3253 Emerson Essays. Nature. Light, God's eldest daughter. 3254 Thomas Fuller: The Holy and Profane States. Light is, perhaps, the most wonderful of all visible things. LISTENERS -see Listening. Nature has given to men one tongue, but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. 3256 Epictetus: Fragments. CXLII. (Long, Trans.) It takes a great man to make a good listener. Sir Arthur Helps: Brevia. Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it. 3258 Saadi: The Gulistan. Ch. 8. Rules for Conduct in Life. |
