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To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and law.

Johann von Goethe

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All Reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

Logan Pearsall Smith, Afterthoughts (1931) "Other People".

I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

How many angels are there One - who transforms our live - Is plenty.

Prove

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own He who secure within can say Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

Horace

We all live in suspense from day to day In other words, you are the hero of your own story.

Mary McCarthy

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963

I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.

D. H. Lawrence

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

George Bernard Shaw

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Anon.

When an American says that he loves his country, he... means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self - Respect.

Adlai Ewing Stevenson

The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

Leo Tolstoy

If we live, we live if we die, we die if we suffer, we suffer if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.

Alan B. Watts

A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.

John Locke

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walke

It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Jim Bishop

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Abraham Lincoln

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Love lives on hope, and dies when hope is dead.

Pierre Corneille

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

Jimmy Carter, Spech in March 1976

Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

Marian Wright Edelman

Associate with the noblest people you can find read the best books live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other people.

Thomas Davidson

He who would teach men to die would at the same time teach them to live.

Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly... spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan Taylo

What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?

George Eliot

I have a dream, that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Houses are built to live in, not to look on therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.

Francis Bacon

It is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep.

Tibetan Prove

Our lives are like the course of the sun. At the darkest moment there is promise of daylight.

The London Times

Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should just live next door and just visit now and then.

Katharine Hepburn

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Dag Hammarskjold

God is the God of truth and every spiritual quality must live with that holy attribute.

Edwin Holt Hughes

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

Will Rogers

No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.

Joseph Brodsky

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

Annie Dillard