John Donne Quotes, Life Quotes, Tolls Quotes

Commemoration of Richard Meux Benson, Founder of the Society of St John the Evangelist, 1915 Our critical day is not the very day of our death, but the whole course of our life; I thank him, that prays for me when my bell tolls; but I thank him much more, that catechizes me, or preaches to me, or instructs me how to live.

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I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

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There is another world, but it is in this one.

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Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.

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Half my life is full of sorrow, Half of joy, still fresh and new; One of these lives is a fancy, But the other one is true.

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They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other.

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Gratitude is something of which none of us can give too much. For on the smiles, the thanks we give, our little gestures of appreciation, our neighbors build their philosophy of life.

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He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise.

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Yet these uneasy pleasures and fine pains are for curiosity, and not for life.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

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The Lord heareth the prayers of those who ask to put aside hatred. But he is deaf to those who would flee from love.

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He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]

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Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.

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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

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There is a delight in the hardy life of the open.

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Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove.

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Modern Darwinism makes it abundantly clear that many less ruthless traits, some not always admired by robber barons and Fuhrers - altruism, general intelligence, compassion - may be the key to survival.

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Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

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The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

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