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"I think I've discovered the secret of life -- you just hang around until you get used to it."
Charles M Schulz
"What's the good of living if you don't try a few things?"
"Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price."
Samuel Johnson
"In the decline of life shame and grief are of short duration; whether it be that we bear easily what we have borne long; or that, finding ourselves in age less regarded, we less regard others; or, that we look with slight regard upon afflictions to w"
"He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many fold in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale.''"
"He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind."
"Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and all rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door."
Charles Lamb
"My theory is to enjoy life, but the practice is against it."
"It is better to live rich, than to die rich."
"Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with."
"Prudence keeps life safe, but it does not often make it happy."
"Prudence operates on life in the same manner as rule of composition; it produces vigilance rather than elevation; rather prevents loss than procures advantage; and often miscarriages, but seldom reaches either power or honor."
"Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage."
"Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life."
"The beggar wears all colors fearing none."
"Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion."
"When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live"
"Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use."
"That kind of life is most happy which affords us most opportunities of gaining our own esteem."
"Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do."
"To cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life."
"Nevertheless it is probable that the hearing rather early in life such views maintained and praised may have favoured my upholding them under a different form in my 'Origin of Species."
Charles Darwin
"This preservation of favourable individual differences and variations, and the destruction of those which are injurious, I have called Natural Selection, or the Survival of the Fittest."
"Sexual selection acts in a less rigorous manner than natural selection. The latter produces its effects by the life or death at all ages of the more or less successful individuals."