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"Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived." »Abraham Lincoln
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"Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement." »Author Unknown
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"Be life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for." »David Starr Jordan
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"Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the world; Homer, that it was a glorious gift of nature; and Ovid, that it was favor bestowed by the gods." »Francis Quarles
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"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well." »Diane Ackerman
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"Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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"An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run." »Sydney Harris
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"A life lived only for oneself - is a less lived life." »Chase LeBlanc
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"It is not in the world of ideas that life is lived. Life is lived for better or worse in life, and to a man in life, his life can be no more absurd than it can be the opposite of absurd, whatever that opposite may be." »Archibald MacLeish
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"I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived." »Hermann Broch
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"Life must be lived as play." »Plato
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"It may be that we have all lived before and died, and this is hell." »A. L. Prusick
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"I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered." »Jean Ingelow
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"He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times." »Johann von Schiller
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"What ought a man to be Well, my short answer is himself." »Henrik Ibsen
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"Life is never too short, we just don't do what we want with it." »Roman Lalich
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"Never try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time." »Norman Ford
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"Life is too short to be sensible." »Unknown
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"This is the short and the long of it." »William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 2
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""Its only deep if you're short."" »Tom Zegan
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"A short saying oft contains much wisdom." »Sophocles
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"Life is too short to be taken seriously." »Author Unknown
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"Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying." »Christian Furchtegott Gellert
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"I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments." »Gaius Julius Caesar
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"Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today." »John Dryden
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"Heaven is such that all who have lived well, of whatever religion, have a place there." »Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Providence" #330
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"That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much." »Robert Louis Stevenson
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"We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"Thousands have lived without love, not one without water." »W.H. Auden
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"He who has given satisfaction to the best of his time has lived for ages." »Schiller
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