Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.—Charlotte Bronte.
That man lives twice that lives the first life well.—Herrick.
He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best; and he whose heart beats the quickest lives the longest.—James Martineau.
Life is probation: mortal man was made
To solve the solemn problem—right or wrong.
—John Quincy Adams.
Live virtuously, my lord, and you cannot die too soon, nor live too long.—Lady Rachel Russell.
Our life contains a thousand springs,
And dies if one be gone;
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.
—Dr. Watts.
And he that lives to live forever never fears dying.—William Penn.
We live in deeds, not years; in thought, not breaths;
In feelings, not in figures on a dial.
We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives,
Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
—Bailey.
This is the state of man; to-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon him:
The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost;
And,—when he thinks, good easy man, full surely
His greatness is a ripening,—nips his root,
And then he falls.
—Shakespeare.
The end of life is to be like unto God; and the soul following God, will be like unto Him; He being the beginning, middle, and end of all things.—Socrates.