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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of light

Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler

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To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler

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The three most important things a man has are, briefly, his private parts, his money, and his religious opinions. – Samuel Butler

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Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. – Robert Louis Stevenson

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All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind. – Abraham Lincoln

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There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. – Henry David Thoreau

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