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In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, Thou'rt such a touchy, testy, pleasant fellow; Hast so much wit, and mirth, and spleen about thee, There is no living with thee, nor without thee.
Mourir, ce n'est rien. Commence donc par vivre. C'est moins dro" le et c'est plus long. To die is nothing. Begin by living. It's less funnyand lasts longer.
For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes fromtears, and my feet from falling.I will walk beforethe L in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken: I wasgreatlyafflicted: I said in my haste, All men are liars.
Wherefore I praise the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope: for a living dog isbetter thana dead lion.For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
He was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.
And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them,Why seek ye the living among the dead? He is not here, but is risen: remember St Luke how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee.
To learn and labour truly to get mine own living, and to do my duty in that state of life, unto which it shall please God to call me.
The act of living had been enjoyable; at some point when I was not paying attention, it had turned into a different sort of experience, to whose grimness I had grown so accustomed that I now took it for granted.
The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying.
Good, to forgive; Best, to forget! Living, we fret; Dying, we live.
Society is indeed a contractit becomes a partnership not only between those who are living, but between those who are living, those who are dead, and those who are to be born.
The dead might as well speak to the living as the old to the young.
Vivre est une maladie dont le sommeil nous soulage toutes les16 heures. C'est un palliatif. La mort est le reme' de. Living is an illness to which sleep provides relief every16 hours.It's a palliative. Death is the remedy.
The day must come when the nation's whole scale of living must be reduced. If that day comes,Parliament must lay the burden equally on all classes.
La seule diffe rence incontestable n'est pas celle des sexes ou des a" ges ou des forces, mais celle des vifs et des morts. The only incontestable difference isnot that of sexorage or strength, but that of the living and the dead.
Is not living at all not better than living badly?
New York was no mere city. It was instead an infinitely romantic notion, the mysterious nexus of all love and money and power, the shining and perishable dream itself. To thinkof 'living'there was to reduce the miraculous to the mundane; one does not 'live'at Xanadu.
History is the endless repetition of the wrong way of living, and it'll start again tomorrow, if it's moved from here today. 296
We are suffering a national defeat comparable to any lost military campaign, and what is more, it is self- inflicted It is about time that we pulled our fingers out The rest of the world most certainly does not owe us a living.
There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up for iver, and onlydribbleyourmind out by thesly, likea leaky barrel.
He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.
Yet we have gone on living, Living and partly living.
Home is where one starts from. As we grow older The world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated Of dead and living.
And what the dead had no speech for, when living, They can tell you, being dead: the communication Of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
Let the Stoics say what they please, we do not eat for the good of living, but because the meat is savoryand the appetite is keen.
The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approached, unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: 'Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.'
The love of posterity is a consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.
Don't tell my mother I'm living in sin, Don't let the old folks know.
Fashion is only the attempt to realize Art in living forms and social intercourse.
C'est une chose anormale de vivre. Living is abnormal.
[Prince Charles] is entitled to be as underwhelmed by the prospect of reigning overa fourth-class nation as the rest of us are by the prospect of living in it.
Wisdom without honesty is mere craft and cozenage. And therefore the reputation for honesty must first be gotten; which cannot be but by living well. A good life is a main argument.
His soul swooned slowlyas he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descentoftheir lastend, uponall theliving and the dead.
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
The deepest thing I know is that I am living and dying at once, and my conviction is to report that dialogue.
The virtues common to good living and good poetry seem to me not so much matters of what used to be called 'virtue'as, above all, of sane vitality.
Tradition does not mean that the living are dead; it means that the dead are living.
Every moment of one's existence one isgrowing into more or retreating into less.One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.
Severe and terrible punishments are enacted against theft, when it would be much better to enable every man to earn his own living, instead of being driven to the awful necessity of stealing and then dying for it.
It isnot living, but living well, whichwe oughttoconsider most important.
Thank Heaven! the crisis The danger is past, And the lingering illness Is over at last And the fever called 'Living' Is conquered at last.
Eye Nature's walks, shoot Folly as it flies, And catch the Manners living as they rise. Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; But vindicate the ways of God to man. See Milton 580:93.
When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
I think in retrospect that all those 'alternative'modes of living were little more than exercises in arrested development.
All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurnme, thycreature, towhomthou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us. 782
How little room Do we take up in death, that, living know No bounds?
For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.
Different living is not living in different places But creating in the mind a map.
But reading is not idlenessit is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.
As to woman's subjectionit is important to note that equal dominion isgiven to woman over every living thing, but not oneword issaidgiving mandominionover woman.
Disillusionment inliving isthefindingout nobodyagrees with you . . .Complete disillusionment is when you realise that no one can for they can't change.
Living next to you is like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered the beast, one is affected by every twitch and grunt.
On doit des e gards aux vivants; on ne doit aux morts que la ve rite . We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth.
I'm less than two months old and I'm tired of living.
A strange manner of battle, where one side works by constant motion and ceaseless charges, while the other can but endure passivelyas it standsfixed tothesod.The Norman arrow and sword worked on: in the English ranks the only movement was the dropping of the dead: the living stood motionless.
A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.
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