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• There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Life, Health, Individual

  Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (2017). “The Measure of a Man”, p.18, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

  John Locke

  Ocean, Serendipity, Depth

  John Locke (1828). “An essay concerning human understanding ... The twentieth edition, etc”, p.15

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• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Satisfaction In Life, Years

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, Book I, Ch. 20, 1595.

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• The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Life, Education, Math

  The Reader's Digest, Vol. 140, p. 194, 1992.

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• The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

  Samuel Smiles

  Adversity, Discovery, Sorrow

  Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.480, The Floating Press

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• Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Friendship, Depth

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• The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make to them; a man may live long, yet get little from life. Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will - Montaigne, Essays

  Barbara Taylor Bradford

  Life, Lying, Men

  FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 20, 2013

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• ~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

  Michel de Montaigne

  Lying, Satisfaction In Life, Use

  'Essais' (1580) bk. 1, ch. 20

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• A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.

  Georges Clemenceau

  Land, Tyrants, Thrones

  "Antisemitism: Part One of The Origins of Totalitarianism". Book by Hannah Arendt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, p. 127, 2012.

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• How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Book, Writing, Long

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• Please believe that I do this because I am convinced that my illness cannot be helped for any length of time and I cannot bear to be a burden on anyone any longer.

  Susannah McCorkle

  Believe, Bears, Illness

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• I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

  John Ashbery

  Looks, Feels

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• I have no history but the length of my bones.

  Robin Skelton

  History, Bones

  Robin Skelton (1971). “The hunting dark”, McClelland and Stewart

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• I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.

  Manuel Puig

  Book, Literature, Study

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• The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.

  Harold Ramis

  Cutting, Rooms, Optimal

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• There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it.

  Ben Stiller

  Hollywood, Use, Film

  FaceBook post by Ben Stiller from Dec 02, 2012

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• It is hard for 2 creative people to work together for that length of time and not fall out.

  Big Jim Sullivan

  Fall, People, Creative

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• Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

  Gerard Majella

  Giving, Support, Use

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• Somewhere in the center of my soul, a rusty chain began to unwind. It freed itself, link by link, from where it had rested, unobserved, waiting for him. My hands, which had been balled up and pressed against his chest, unfurled with it. The chain continued to drop, to an unfathomable depth where there was nothing but darkness and Matthew. At last it snapped to its full length, anchoring me to a vampire. Despite the manuscript, despite the fact that my hands contained enough voltage to run a microwave, and despite the photograph, as long as I was connected to him, I was safe.

  Deborah Harkness

  Running, Hands, Long

  Deborah Harkness (2014). “All Souls Trilogy”, p.172, Penguin

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• My brief flash of relief and confidence melted away. Good thing it did, too. I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.

  Jim Butcher

  Relief, World, Good Things

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.249, Penguin

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• Thoughts by a graveside are too dark and deep to be sustained for any length of time. Sooner or later the hurt mind turns to the sun for healing, and this is as it should be, for otherwise, what future could any of us hope for, but madness?

  Miss Read

  Hurt, Healing, Dark

  Miss Read (2001). “Village School”, p.120, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  People, Perfection, Clarity

  FaceBook post by Sue Monk Kidd from Dec 19, 2013

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• And think what worrying does: has anyone ever added a single hour to the length of his life by worrying about it?

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Worry, Doe

  Philip Pullman (2009). “The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ”, p.37, Canongate Books

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• But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Heart, Evil, Want

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.98, Harper Collins

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• Yes?" she asked, eyeing me guardedly. I struck out a hand and said "Shake." Arra stared at the hand, then into my unfocused eyes. "One good fight doesn't make you a warrior," she said. "Shake!" I repeated angrily. "And if I don't?" she asked. "I'll get back up on the bars and fight you till you do," I growled. Arra studied me at length, then nodded and took my hand. "Power to you, Darren Shan," she said gruffly. "Power," I repeated weakly, then fainted into her arms and knew no more till I came to in my hammock the next night.

  Darren Shan

  Eye, Fighting, Warrior

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