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The bridge is human life: upon a leisurely survey of it, I found that it consisted of threescore and ten entire arches.: Joseph Addison

Though we seem grieved at the shortness of life in general, we are wishing every period of it at an end: the minor longs to be at age; then to be a man of business; then to make up an estate; then to arrive at honours; then to retire.: Joseph Addison

As it is the chief concern of wise men to retrench the evils of life by the reasonings of philosophy, it is the employment of fools to multiply them by the sentiments of superstition.: Joseph Addison

It shall ever be my study to make discoveries of this nature in human life, and to settle the proper distinctions between the virtues and perfections of mankind and those false colours and resemblances of them that shine alike in the eyes of the vulgar.: Joseph Addison

We live and act as if we were perfectly secure of the final event of things, however we may behave ourselves.: Francis Atterbury

Men who live without religion live always in a tumultuary and restless state.: Francis Atterbury

Nothing can be reckoned good or bad to us in this life any farther than it prepares or indisposes us for the enjoyments of another.: Francis Atterbury

To live like those that have their hope in another life implies that we indulge ourselves in the gratifications of this life very sparingly.: Francis Atterbury

To live long, it is necessary to live slowly.: Cicero

They who are most weary of life, and yet are most unwilling to die, are such who have lived to no purpose,—who have rather breathed than lived.: Earl of Clarendon

The advantages of life will not hold out to the length of desire; and since they are not big enough to satisfy, they should not be big enough to dissatisfy.: Jeremy Collier

Life is a journey:—on we go Thro’ many a scene of joy and woe.: William Combe

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindnesses, and small obligations, given habitually, are what win and preserve the heart, and secure comfort.: Sir Humphry Davy

They made as sure of health and life as if both of them were at their disposal.: John Dryden

He lives long that lives well; and time misspent is not lived, but lost. Besides, God is better than His promise, if He takes from him a long lease, and gives him a freehold of a greater value.: Thomas Fuller

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.: Gratian

All the divine and infinitely wise ways of economy that God could use towards a rational creature oblige mankind to that course of living which is most agreeable to our nature.: Henry Hammond

Unto life many implements are necessary; more, if we seek such a life as hath in it joy, comfort, delight, and pleasure.: Richard Hooker

These things are linked and, as it were, chained one to another: we labour to eat, and we eat to live, and we live to do good; and the good which we do is as seed sown with reference unto a future harvest.: Richard Hooker

Many seem to pass on from youth to decrepitude without any reflection on the end of life.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

Our senses, our appetites, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in most things that relate solely to this life; and therefore by the hourly necessity of consulting them we gradually sink into an implicit submission and habitual confidence.: Dr. Samuel Johnson

What a deal of cold business doth a man misspend the better part of life in! In scattering compliments, tendering visits, following feasts and plays.: Ben Jonson

If this life is unhappy, it is a burden to us, which it is difficult to bear; if it is in every respect happy, it is dreadful to be deprived of it: so that in either case the result is the same, for we must exist in anxiety and apprehension.: Jean La Bruyère

A rule that relates even to the smallest part of our life is of great benefit to us, merely as it is a rule.: William Law

I desire nothing, I press nothing upon you, but to make the most of human life, and to aspire after perfection in whatever state of life you choose.: William Law

Learn to live for your own sake and the service of God; and let nothing in the world be of any value with you but that which you can turn into a service to God, and a means of your future happiness.: William Law

Unreasonable and absurd ways of life, whether in labour or diversion, whether they consume our time or our money, are like unreasonable and absurd prayers, and are as truly an offence to God.: William Law

It is not his intent to live in such ways as, for aught we know, God may perhaps pardon, but to be diligent in such ways as we know that God will infallibly reward.: William Law

We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.: Roger L’Estrange

That such a temporary life as we now have is better than no being, is evident by the high value we put upon it ourselves.: John Locke

When we voluntarily waste much of our lives, that remissness can by no means consist with a constant determination of will or desire to the greatest apparent good.: John Locke

A very little part of our life is so vacant from uneasiness as to leave us free to the attraction of remoter good.: John Locke

He that knows how to make those he converses with easy, has found the true art of living, and being welcome and valued everywhere.: John Locke

Christian life consists in faith and charity.: Martin Luther

It is to live twice when you can enjoy the recollection of your former life.: Martial

Of all views under which human life has ever been considered, the most reasonable, in my judgment, is that which regards it as a state of probation.: William Paley

He lived in such temperance as was enough to make the longest life agreeable; and in such a course of piety as sufficed to make the most sudden death so also.: Alexander Pope

So that it is never entirely free from calamity.: Plutarch

This tide of man’s life after it once turneth and declineth ever runneth with a perpetual ebb and falling stream, but never floweth again.: Sir Walter Raleigh

Our bodies are but the anvils of pains and diseases, and our minds the hives of unnumbered cares.: Sir Walter Raleigh

By how much the more we are accompanied with plenty, by so much the more greedily is our end desired, whom when time had made unsociable to others we become a burden to ourselves.: Sir Walter Raleigh

In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live, and enjoy his being, who is engaged in some laudable pursuit and acquires a name by some illustrious action or useful art.: Sallust

Life is a navigation.: Seneca

Life is a warfare.: Seneca

After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.: William Shakespeare

I bear a charmed life.: William Shakespeare

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, Good and ill together.: William Shakespeare

The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of.: William Shakespeare

Thou hast nor youth, nor age;— But, as it were, an after-dinner’s sleep, Dreaming on both. - What’s yet in this, That bears the name of life? yet in this life Lie hid more thousand deaths: yet death we fear That makes these odds all even.: William Shakespeare

Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more: It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.: William Shakespeare

Life’s evening, we may rest assured, will take its character from the day which has preceded it; and if we would close our career in the comfort of religious hope, we must prepare for it by early and continuous religious habit.: Bishop Philip N. Shuttleworth

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

A man’s life is an appendix to his heart.: Robert South

To have an orthodox belief and a true profession concurring with a bad life is only to deny Christ with greater solemnity.: Robert South

Let all enquiries into the mysterious points of theology be carried on with fervent petitions to God that he would dispose their minds to direct all their skill to the promotion of a good life.: Robert South

The great inequality of all things to the appetites of a rational soul appears from this, that in all worldly things a man finds not half the pleasure in the actual possession that he proposed in the expectation.: Robert South

And with unwearied fingers drawing out The lines of life from living knowledge hid.: Edmund Spenser

That cruel Atropos eftsoons undid, With cursed knife cutting the twist in twain; Most wretched men, whose days depend on threads so vain.: Edmund Spenser

Nothing can be so sad as confinement for life, nor so sweet, an please your honour, as liberty.: Lawrence Sterne

Here thou art but a stranger travelling to thy country; it is therefore a huge folly to be afflicted because thou hast a less convenient inn to lodge in by the way.: Jeremy Taylor

Propound to thyself a constant rule of living, which, though it may not be fit to observe scrupulously, lest it become a snare to thy conscience or endanger thy health, yet let not thy rule be broken.: Jeremy Taylor

He lived according to nature; the other by ill customs, and measures taken by other men’s eyes and tongues.: Jeremy Taylor

Pirates have fair winds and a calm sea when the just and peaceful merchant-man hath them.: Jeremy Taylor

We bring into the world with us a poor, needy, uncertain life, short at the longest and unquiet at the best.: Sir William Temple

Some writers in casting up the goods most desirable in life have given them this rank: health, beauty, and riches.: Sir William Temple

I take it to be a principal rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.: Terence

It is a reasonable account for any man to give, why he does not live as the greatest part of the world do, that he has no mind to die as they do, and perish with them.: John Tillotson

Take away God and religion, and men live to no purpose, without proposing any worthy and considerable end of life to themselves.: John Tillotson

Let us not deceive ourselves by pretending to this excellent knowledge of Christ Jesus our Lord, if we do not frame our lives according to it.: John Tillotson

No prudent man lays his designs only for a day, without any prospect to the remaining part of his life.: John Tillotson

Refer all the actions of this short life to that state which will never end; and this will approve itself to be wisdom at the last, whatever the world judge of it now.: John Tillotson

All the arguments to a good life will be very insignificant to a man that hath a mind to be wicked, when remission of sins may be had upon cheap terms.: John Tillotson

No man can certainly conclude God’s love or hatred to any person from what befalls him in this world.: John Tillotson

From the instant of our birth we experience the benignity of Heaven and the malignity of corrupt nature.: John Trusler

Nothing hath proved more fatal to that due preparation for another life than our unhappy mistake of the nature and end of this.: William Wake

God proves us in this life, that he may the more plenteously reward us in the next.: William Wake

So many accidents may deprive us of our lives, that we can never say that he who neglects to secure his salvation to-day may without danger put it off to to-morrow.: William Wake

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well. Measure by man’s desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.: Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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Authors by sayings about life: Joseph Addison, Francis Atterbury, Cicero, Earl of Clarendon, Jeremy Collier, William Combe, Sir Humphry Davy, John Dryden, Thomas Fuller, Gratian, Henry Hammond, Richard Hooker, Dr. Samuel Johnson, Ben Jonson, Jean La Bruyère, William Law, Roger L’Estrange, John Locke, Martin Luther, Martial, William Paley, Alexander Pope, Plutarch, Sir Walter Raleigh, Sallust, Seneca, William Shakespeare, Bishop Philip N. Shuttleworth, Socrates, Robert South, Edmund Spenser, Edmund Spenser, Lawrence Sterne, Jeremy Taylor, Sir William Temple, Terence, John Tillotson, John Trusler, William Wake, Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann.

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