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He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty

He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells; and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. – Sydney Smith

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Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life let us swear eternal friendship. – Sydney Smith

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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. – George MacDonald

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If life has those moments — ecstasies of health, youth and peace… — treasure them. – Byron Caldwell Smith, letter to Kate Stephens

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Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways. РStephen Vincent Ben̩t

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Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live. – Margaret Fuller

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