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There are three modes of bearing the ills of life, by indifference, by philosophy, and by religion.
Adversity
Charles Caleb Colton

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Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Work
Confucius

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Consideration for others is the basic of a good life, a good society.
Manners
Confucius

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Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Fate
Confucius

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Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.
Simplicity
Confucius

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Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life.
Joy
William Congreve

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The one way to get thin is to re-establish a purpose in life.
Food and Eating
Cyril Connolly

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We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of the self.
Prison
Cyril Connolly

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There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
Army and Navy
Joseph Conrad

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Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Life and Living
Shirley Conran

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Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
Music
Pat Conroy

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We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages -- we don't throw it away all at once.
Life and Living
Robert A. Cook

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The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.
Travel and Tourism
Mason Cooley

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I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.
Adversity
Francis Ford Coppola

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Magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life.
Planning
Frances Cornford

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My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant.
Vocation
Elvis Costello

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It has taken me all my life to understand it is not necessary to understand everything.
Understanding
Rene Coty

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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
Libraries
Norman Cousins

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
Life and Living
William Cowper

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The life of ease is a difficult pursuit.
Idleness
William Cowper

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Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor.
Variety
William Cowper

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It is the growling man who lives a dog's life.
Complaints and Complaining
Coleman Cox

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Oh my son's my son till he gets him a wife, but my daughter's my daughter all her life.
Daughters
Dinah Mulock Craik

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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Bachelor
Richard Crashaw

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Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.
Life and Living
Quentin Crisp

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun