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Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
Without a measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed.
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand read more
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the read more
The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span:
In his conception wretched, from the womb so to the tomb.
Curst from his cradle, and brought up to years with cares and
fears.
Who then to frail mortality shall trust,
But limns the water, or but writes in dust.
Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
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Let us live then, and be glad
While young life's before us
After youthful pastime had,
After old age had and sad,
Earth will slumber over us.
[Lat., Gaudeamus igitur,
Juvenes dum sumus
Post pucundam juventutem.
Post molestam senectutem.
Nos habetit humus.]
The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] read more
The Answer to the Great Question Of . . . Life, the Universe and
Everything . . . [is] Forty-two.
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches read more
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring and because it has fresh peaches in it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.