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The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
To make pleasures pleasant shorten them.
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to read more
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth... and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that.
And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]
And now abideth faith, hope and charity, these three, but the greatest of these is charity. [Corinthians]
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.
Before marriage a man yearns for a woman. Afterward the "y" is silent.
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may read more
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.
