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The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]
Wisdom
Bible

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Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life [Matthew 6:27]
Thoughts and Thinking
Bible

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Life. A spiritual pickle preserving the body from decay.
Life and Living
Ambrose Bierce

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Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Life and Living
Josh Billings

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Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.
Life and Living
Josh Billings

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Life is an earnest business, and no one every became good or great on a diet of broad grins.
Life and Living
Professor Blackie

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For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.
Life and Living
William Blake

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Love is the immortal flow of energy that nourishes, extends and preserves. Its eternal goal is life.
Love
Smiley Blanton

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Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement.
Teachers and Teaching
Edward Blishen

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Hell and damnation, life is such fun with a ragged greatcoat and a Jerry gun!
War
Alexander Blok

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There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.
Gratitude
Ralph H. Blum

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If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
Ancestry
Nicholas Boileau

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The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
Life and Living
Corrie Ten Boom

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Life itself is a quotation.
Quotations
Jorge Luis Borges

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What poor education I have received has been gained in the University of Life.
Colleges and Universities
Horatio Bottomley

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The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Courtesy
Christian Nevell Bovee

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Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms.
Conceit
Elizabeth Bowen

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Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Life and Living
Bertolt Brecht

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A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500.
Law and Lawyers
Benjamin Brewster

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Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense.
Biography
Fawn M. Brodie

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What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence.
Life and Living
Joseph Brodsky

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Poetry is life distilled.
Poetry and Poets
Gwendolyn Brooks

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The tragedy of life is not that a man loses, but that he almost wins.
Life and Living
Heywood Broun

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Write the news as if your very life depended on it. It does!
Journalism and Journalists
Heywood Broun

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Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long.
Age and Aging
Captain J. Brown

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