"And the wild regrets, and the bloody sweats, none knew so well as I: for he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."

Wilde, Oscar on hypocrisy
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"Death is the only inescapable, unavoidable, sure thing. We are sentenced to die the day we're born."

Gilmore, Gary Mark on death
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"Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives."

Sachs, A. on death
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"It is not death, but dying, which is terrible."

Fielding, Henry on death   

"When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."

Lincoln, Abraham on common sense
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"Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on past
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"Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win. Channel your energy. Focus."

Lewis, Carol on focus
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"A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run."

Ouida on gossip   

"In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us."

Billings, Josh on age and aging
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"If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself."

Nietzsche, Friedrich on women
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"You learn to speak by speaking, to study by studying, to run by running, to work by working; in just the same way, you learn to love by loving."

Francis De Sales, St. on action
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"A hero is a man who is afraid to run away."

Proverb, English on heroes and heroism
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"One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!"

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on anger
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"An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes."

Cato The Elder on anger
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"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear."

Twain, Mark on anger
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"He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing."

Sallust on hatred
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run."

Harris, Sidney J. on ideals and idealism
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"You are young at any age if you are planning for tomorrow."

Unknown, Source on age and aging   

"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."

Kanin, Garson on age and aging
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"Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. Thus a feeling of utter unworthiness can be a source of courage."

Hoffer, Eric on fear   

"Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better."

Rohn, Jim on hope
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"Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."

King Jr. Martin Luther on hatred
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"Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life."

Lakein, Alan on time
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"Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings."

James, William on thoughts and thinking
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"Life at any time can become difficult: life at any time can become easy. It all depends upon how one adjusts oneself to life."

Desai, Morarji on attitude
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"It is not length of life, but depth of life."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on life
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"Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life."

Lamb, Charles on pain
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"Our attitude toward life determines life's attitude towards us."

Nightingale, Earl on attitude
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"No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment."

Carlyle, Thomas on quality
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"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth on passion
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"Parents are sometimes a bit of a disappointment to their children. They don't fulfill the promise of their early years."

Powell, Anthony on parents and parenting
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"You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try."

Sills, Beverly on effort
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"In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person."

Bancroft, George on slander
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"The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves. We cannot force love."

Hazlitt, William on love
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