Life Quotes
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A full-dressed ecclesiastic is a sort of go-cart of divinity; an ethical automaton. A clerical prig is, in general, a very dangerous as well as contemptible character. The utmost that those who thus habitually confound their opinions and sentiments with the outside coverings of their bodies can aspire to, is a negative and neutral character, like wax-work figures, where the dress is done as much to the life as the man, and where both are respectable pieces of pasteboard, or harmless compositions of fleecy hosiery.
William Hazlitt
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The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten.
Victor Hugo
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To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.
Victor Hugo
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I believe in life that you know that everything prepares you for the next thing - whether it's a hit, whether it's not a hit, whether it's a... your failures are your accomplishments because it makes you prepared for whatever it is that you are going to do next.
Lee Daniels
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Give to these children, new from the world,
Rest far from men.
Is anything better, anything better?
Tell us it then.
William Butler Yeats
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What fascinated me most was Churchill as a young child. He had a kind of Dickensian childhood. The neglect. And he was a terrible student. His whole life is a study in trying to overcome your feelings of inadequacy.
John Lithgow
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It hurts how life goes on, unknowing.
Cynthia Lord
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'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.
Dick Van Dyke
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A lot of children don't have a developed aesthetic. I did. I made early choices in life, even about cloth; I liked flannel and not polyester.
Patti Smith
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Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown.
Stephen Gardiner
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Agriculture has become essential to life; the forest, the lake, and the ocean cannot sustain the increasing family of man; population declines with a declining cultivation, and nations have ceased to be with the extinction of their agriculture.
Elias Hasket Derby
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Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won't dislike you.
Gerard Way
My Chemical Romance
