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We should show life neither as it is or as it it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams
True life is lived when tiny changes occur
The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams, awake
We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character
Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow
I know of no more encouraging fact than the ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor
Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest
There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living
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