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This world is not a platform where you will hear Thalberg-piano-playing. It is a piano manufactory, where are dust and shavings and boards, and saws and files and rasps and sandpapers. The perfect instrument and the music will be hereafter. - Henry Ward Beecher We sleep, but the loom of live never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up to-morrow. - Henry Ward Beecher, Life Thoughts (p. 12) We are all but Fellow-Travelers, Along Life's weary way; If any man can play the pipes, In God's name, let him play. - John Bennett, a poem in "The Century" Life does not proceed by the association and addition of elements, but by dissociation and division. - Henri Louis Bergson, Creative Evolution (ch. I) For life is tendency, and the essence of a tendency is to develop in the form of a sheaf, creating, by its very growth, divergent directions among which its impetus is divided. - Henri Louis Bergson, Creative Evolution (ch. II) It is a misery to be born, a pain to live, a trouble to die. [Lat., Nasci miserum, vivere poena, angustia mori.] - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux ch. III And Satan answered the Lord, and said, Skin for skin, yea all that a man hath will he give for his life. - Bible, Job (ch. II, v. 4) I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity. - Bible, Job (ch. VII, v. 16) For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow: Shall not they theach thee, and tell thee, and utter words out of their heart? - Bible, Job (ch. VIII, v. 9) Man knoweth not the price thereof; neither is it found in the land of the living. - Bible, Job (ch. XXVIII, v. 13) Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. - Bible, Matthew (ch. VII, v. 13-14) As for man, this days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. - Bible, Psalms (ch. CIII, v. 15) For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more. - Bible, Psalms (ch. CIII, v. 16) My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue, Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am. - Bible, Psalms (ch. XXXIX, v. 3-4) Do what you will this life's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. - William Blake Life does not give itself to one who tries to keep all its advantages at once. I have often thought that morality may perhaps consist solely in the courage of making a choice. - Leon Blum, in his book on marriage Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. - Nadia Boulanger The nearest approximation to an understanding of life is to feel it--to realize it to the full--to be a profound and inscrutable mystery. - Christian Nestell Bovee If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. - Elizabeth Bowen Alas, how scant the sheaves for all the trouble, The toil, the pain and the resolve sublime-- A few full ears; the rest but weeds and stubble, And withered wild-flowers plucked before their time. - Alonzo Bartlett Bragdon, The Old Campus For life is the mirror of king and slave, 'Tis just what we are and do; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best will come back to you. - Madeline Bridges (Mrs. Mary Ainge de Vere), Life's Mirror There are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave, There are souls that are pure and true; Then give to the world the best you have, And the best fill come back to you. - Madeline Bridges (Mrs. Mary Ainge de Vere), Life's Mirror Life is the only game in which the object of the game is to learn the rules. - Ashleigh Brilliant What art thou, life, that we, must court thy stay? A breath one single gasp must puff away! A short-lived flower, that with the day must fade! A fleeting vapor, and an empty shade! A stream that silently but swiftly glides To meet eternity's immeasured tides! A being, lost alike by pain or joy? A fly can kill it, or a worm destroy! Impair'd by labor, and by ease undone, Commenced in tears, and ended in a groan. - Alexander Brome Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs. - Charlotte Bronte (used pseudonym Currer Bell) Displaying page 3 of 26 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26
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