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Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Excellence
George Eliot

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.
Change
George Eliot

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The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.
Conscience
George Eliot

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There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
Privacy
George Eliot

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There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.
Failure
George Eliot

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What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
Life and Living
George Eliot

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What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.
Purpose
George Eliot

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I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
Futility
T. S. Eliot

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War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted.
War
T. S. Eliot

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Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
Dreams
Havelock Ellis

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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
Danger
Havelock Ellis

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Pain and death are a part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Pain
Havelock Ellis

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A day for toil, an hour for sport, but for a friend is life too short.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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As soon as there is life there is danger.
Danger
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Courtesy Life be not so short but that there is always time for courtesy.
Courtesy
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.
Action
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.
Friends and Friendship
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?
Freedom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
Charity
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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How much of human life is lost in waiting.
Expectation
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Intellectual tasting of life will not supersede muscular activity.
Exercise
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Life and Living
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life consists in what a person is thinking of all day.
Thoughts and Thinking
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life is a festival only to the wise.
Wisdom
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Life is a perpetual instruction in cause and effect.
Life and Living
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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