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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.


Norman Douglas

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The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
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BIBLE I distrust those sentiments that are too far removed from nature, and whose sublimity is blended wi...
ANDRE-FRANCOIS DESLANDES I'd be a butterfly; living a rover, / Dying when fair things are fading away.
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
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C.S. LEWIS And what cats have to tell
on each return from hell
is this: that dying is what the living...
ALASTAIR REID I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
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GERMANY KENT Are the things you are living for worth Christ dying for?
LEONARD RAVENHILL To have our needs met, to love, to be loved, to feel safe in this world and to each know our purpose...
BRYANT MCGILL Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT When we fail to tend to the fragilities of a flower as we become distracted by the noise of our mind...
FORREST CURRAN What can we learn about living from those who are face to face with the prospect of dying?
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ERIC ROTH If you don’t have a goal and don’t know where you want to be and when you want be there. You are...
AHMED ALI ANJUM To be, or not to be, that is the question.
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R.J. GONZALES Commitment is turning point to attain desired goal. When you are committed to self you seize the mom...
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LORRIN L. LEE Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.
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LAO TZU Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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ERNEST HEMINGWAY You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ...
TEGAN QUIN Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA The sad heart needs work to do.
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
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FEREIDOON YAZDI It was about more fully inhabiting the life I have, not creating a new one.
PATTI DIGH Within Eros, there is (the) promise; within Love there is (the) Truth.
NOETIS I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'
LIL WAYNE Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT KENNEDY Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
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ANDREW TO How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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MELINA MARCHETTA Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
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VICTOR SHAMAS Have the courage to do what you're not ready to do.
RICHIE NORTON Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead
BIBLE It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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IDRIES SHAH Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things whi...
BIBLE Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended, but one thing I do, forgetting those things whi...
BIBLE To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be.
GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD Meant to be" allows for lazy. The idea of destiny alleviates anxiety; it comforts us. We stop believ...
STEPHANIE KLEIN To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS In a world of words, anything is possible...
LAURA WRIGHT LAROCHE Sollte die Freiheit zu streben, die uns die Götter in allen Umständen des Lebens gelassen haben, s...
GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Less thinking, more living.
S.R. CRAWFORD Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that....
JOHN GREEN Everything we do really is just a little marker on the long road to death. And sometimes that’s ov...
JOSS WHEDON He created us for adventure, not ease.
MARY E. DEMUTH I would do what I pleased, and doing what I pleased, I should have my will, and having my will, I s...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When a...
JOHN STEINBECK When there is no reason to be happy, that's all the reason you need to happy
SOTONYE ANGA You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
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NORMAN ALLEN It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be ent...
NORMAN ANGELL The word conservative is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views diffe...
NORMAN TEBBIT A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling his goods...
NORMAN COUSINS The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the pu...
NORMAN COUSINS The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of...
NORMAN COUSINS If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it.
NORMAN THOMAS I'm hostile to men, I'm hostile to women, I'm hostile to cats, to poor cockroaches, I'm afraid of ho...
NORMAN MAILER One of the most feared expressions in modern times is The computer is down
NORMAN AUGUSTINE Cynicism is intellectual treason.
NORMAN COUSINS It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes int...
NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
NORMAN MAILER There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.
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