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Life Quotes - Page 385

It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.'

"Aesop's Fables". Book by Aesop (Fable XXXVIII "A Horse and an Asse"),

Vices are their own punishment

Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.55, Pelekanos Books

The rule of my life is to make business a pleasure, and pleasure my business.

"Wit and Humor of Bench and Bar" by Marshall Brown, (p. 67), 1899.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

"Fictional character: Alvy Singer". "Annie Hall", www.imdb.com. 1977.

O excellent! I love long life better than figs.

'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 1, sc. 2, l. [34]

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

William James (1970). “Essays in Pragmatism”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

In dreams begins responsibility.

Responsibilities epigraph (1914). Said to be from an "Old Play."

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

Death Comes for the Archbishop bk. 9 (1927)

We are mere journeymen, planting seeds for someone else to harvest.

Wallace Thurman (1979). “Infants of the spring: a novel”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr