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The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
Action
Thomas H. Huxley

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There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
Failure
Thomas H. Huxley

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Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
Life and Living
Indian Proverb

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Nonviolence is the supreme law of life.
Peace
Indian Proverb

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I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.
Love
Robert Green Ingersoll

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It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
Coward and Cowardice
Irish Proverb

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Half my life is an act of revision.
Life and Living
John Irving

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A woman's life is a history of the affections.
Affection
Washington Irving

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Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination
Life and Living
Christopher Isherwood

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Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.
Books - Reading
Holbrook Jackson

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Life and Living
Henry James

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Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
Animals
Henry James

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The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Fiction
Henry James

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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
Ecology
William James

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Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Belief
William James

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Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
Life and Living
William James

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The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Immortality
William James

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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Life and Living
William James

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The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
Purpose
William James

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To spend life for something which outlasts it.
Achievement
William James

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We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.
Life and Living
William James

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The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.
Control
Gerald G. Jampolsky

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the giver of life, who gave it for happiness and not for wretchedness.
Uncategorised
Thomas Jefferson

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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time.
Liberty
Thomas Jefferson

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Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
Love
Douglas William Jerrold

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