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• But I am mistaken in speaking of a Christian republic; the terms are mutually exclusive. Christianity preaches only servitude and dependence. Its spirit is so favorable to tyranny that it always profits by such a regime. True Christians are made to be slaves, and they know it and do not much mind; this short life counts for too little in their eyes.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Christian, Eye, Mind

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau, G. D. H. Cole (2003). “On the Social Contract”, p.95, Courier Corporation

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• If there is one thing I've learned in my short life, it's this: Never repress anything.

  Otto Gross

  I've Learned, One Thing, Ifs

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• I don't read such boring things. Life is too short.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Life, Boring, Too Short

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• I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

  Greg Lake

  Life, Creativity, Want

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• Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers; the vices and passions (which I am afraid are the natural product of the soil) demand perpetual weeding. Add to this the search after knowledge. . . and the longest life is too short.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Life, Weed, Flower

  Mary Wortley Montagu (2011). “The Letters and Works of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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• It is very wonderful to see persons of the best sense passing hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards with no conversation but what is made up of a few game-phrases, and no other ideas but those of black or red spots arranged together in different figures. Would not a man laugh to hear any one of his species complaining that life is short?

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Laughter, Men

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• Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.

  Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

  Passion, Self, Generosity

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• I feel that I was made to complete things. To accomplish only a mass of beginnings and attempts would be to make a total failure of life. Perfection is the heritage with which my Creator has endowed me, and since this short life does not give completeness, I must have immortal life in which to find it.

  Randolph Sinks Foster

  Giving, Perfection, Doe

  Randolph Sinks Foster (1870). “Beyond the Grave: Being Three Lectures Before Chautauqua Assembly in 1878, with Papers on Recognition in the Future State, and Other Addenda”, p.92

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• I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length.

  Avicenna

  Length, Width

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• How short life is for fools.

  Orson Scott Card

  How Short Life Is, Fool, Life Is

  Orson Scott Card (2004). “The Crystal City: The Tales of Alvin Maker”, p.181, Macmillan

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• Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Past, People, Energy

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• Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

  Caroline Knapp

  Mother, Dog, Waiting

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• How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by losing ourselves in our Blackberries, our iPhones, by not paying attention to the human being across from us who is talking with us, by being so lazy that we're not willing to process deeply?

  Joshua Foer

  Talking, Iphone, Lazy

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• A long life or a short life are of equal importance to God.

  Jack Black

  Death, Long, Importance

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• I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, and gratitude for her all-too-short life. It is a chance to show to the whole world the British nation united in grief and respect.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Gratitude, Grief, Loss

  Tribute to Princess Diana on the Eve of her Funeral, delivered 9 September 1997, Chinese Dining Room at Buckingham Palace, Westminster

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• I still find each day too short.

  John Burroughs

  Thinking Of You, Retirement, Life Is Too Short

  John Burroughs (1924). “Summit of the years”

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• Do you do this because you live such short lives? Tell yourselves wild tales of what might happen tomorrow, and feel all the feelings of events that will never happen? Perhaps to make up for the pasts you cannot recall, you invent futures that will not exist.

  Robin Hobb

  Past, Feelings, Events

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• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Moving Forward, Reflection, Endless Journey

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

  Shirley Hazzard

  Inspirational, Children, Real

  Shirley Hazzard (2003). “The Bay of Noon: A Novel”, p.13, Macmillan

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• Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Past, Energy

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Unnecessary customs live a brutally short life in America.

  Wilfrid Sheed

  America, Unnecessary, Customs

  Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word & other words”, Dutton Adult

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• The blessings of one mountain day, whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

  John Muir

  Fate, Blessing, Long

  John Muir (2015). “John Muir’s Incredible Travel Memoirs: A Thousand-Mile Walk to the Gulf, My First Summer in the Sierra, The Mountains of California, Travels in Alaska, Steep Trails… (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs & Wilderness Studies from the Naturalist, Environmental Philosopher and Early Advocate of Preservation of Wilderness, the Author of The Yosemite and Picturesque California”, p.136, e-artnow

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• Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest! Days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God. Nevermore, however weary, should one faint by the way who gains the blessings of one mountain day; whatever his fate, long life, short life, stormy or calm, he is rich forever.

  John Muir

  Fate, Blessing, Light

  John Muir (1997). “Nature Writings: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, My First Summer in the Sierra, the Mountains of California, Stickeen, Selected Essays”, p.187, Library of America

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• They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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