We know so well what we are doing ourselves and why we do it, do we not? I fancy that there is some truth in the view which is being put forward nowadays, that it is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
life the-public
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
life art
Life is the gathering of waves to a head, at death they break into a million fragments each one of which, however, is absorbed at once into the sea of life and helps to form a later generation which comes rolling on till it too breaks.
life help death
Memory and forgetfulness are as life and death to one another. To live is to remember and to remember is to live. To die is to forget and to forget is to die.
life death
The great characters of fiction live as truly as the memories of dead men. For the life after death it is not necessary that a man or woman should have lived.
life man men death character
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
life man business
An empty house is like a stray dog or a body from which life has departed.
life
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
money
Heaven is the work of the best and kindest men and women. Hell is the work of prigs, pedants and professional truth-tellers. The world is an attempt to make the best of both.
women work men truth
The pursuit of truth is chimerical. That is why it is so hard to say what truth is. There is no permanent absolute unchangeable truth; what we should pursue is the most convenient arrangement of our ideas.
truth
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch cold on over-exposure.
men truth
Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
man truth
truth action
Feeling is an art and, like any other art, can be acquired by taking pains.
pain art
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