#life

Those who speak ill of the spiritual life, although they come and go by day, are like the smith's bellows: they take breath but are not alive. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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No man is truly great who is great only in his lifetime. The test of greatness is the page of history. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The world judge of men by their ability in their profession, and we judge of ourselves by the same test: for it is on that on which our success in life depends. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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One of the greatest objections which families have to New South Wales, is their apprehension of the moral effects that are likely to overwhelm them by bad example, and for which no success in life could compensate. ↗

— Charles Sturt

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The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost. ↗

— Seamus Heaney

#arrival #elevation #fact #itself #life

Of course, the simple explanation of the fact is that marriage is the most important act of man's life in Europe or America, and that everything depends upon it. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

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Are people angry with me? Sure, anything you do in your life, people are going to be angry at you. ↗

— Anne Heche

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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

#environment #foreign #guys #home #home life

I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter. ↗

— Patricia Heaton

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