Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
William Butler YeatsRead
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Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by
Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.
Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.
Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
Some people go through life trying to find out what the world holds for them only to find out too late that it's what they bring to the world that really counts.
Life can be wonderful if you're not afraid of it. All it takes is courage, imagination ... and a little dough
Keep your place in life and your place will keep you
Wise men say nothing in dangerous times
After all Death is a Symbol that there was Life.
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty.
Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.
Lord, how the day passes! It's like a life - so quickly when we don't watch it and so slowly when we do.
Your premium brand had better be delivering something special, or it's not going to get the business.
There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong.
We should show life neither as it is or as it ought to be, but only as we see it in our dreams.
The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been complete without you.
Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.
The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
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