Living and lifetime Quotes

So free we seem, so fettered fast we are

The grand perhaps! We look on helplessly, there the old misgivings, crooked questions are

Where the heart lies, let the brain lie also

Let age approve of youth, and death complete the same

Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat, the mist in my face

The world and its way have a certain worth

There are times when patience proves at fault

Progress is the law of life, man is not man as yet

For life, with all its yields of joy and woe, and hope and fear, believe the aged friend, is just a chance o' the prize of learning love

There may be heaven; there must be hell; meantime, there is our earth here - well!

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity

There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth

It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already

They that have lived a single day have lived an age

Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds - habits and novelty