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Quote by Jean Paul

“The romance of life begins and ends with two blank pages. Age and extreme old age.”

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Jean Paul, born Johann Paul Friedrich Richter, was a prominent German writer of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Known for his unique style and profound philosophical insights, his works have had a significant impact on literature. more

“In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.”

Men Life Country States Character Wish Cities West Doctrine Ease Grants Ignoble American Character

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“This life is but the passage of a day, This life is but a pang and all is over; But in the life to come which fades not away Every love shall abide and every lover.”

Life Life Is Lovers This Life Passages Fades

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Christina Rossetti (Illustrated)

“Say, what is life? 'Tis to be born, A helpless Babe, to greet the light With a sharp wail, as if the morn Foretold a cloudy noon and night; To weep, to sleep, and weep again, With sunny smiles between; and then?”

Ifs Life Light Night Born Sleep Helpless Sunny Noon Babe Cloudy What Is Life

Author:John Godfrey Saxe

“We, we live! ours are the hours, and the living have their claims.”

Life Hours Claims

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Life did not present its sunny side to thee.”

Life Sides Thee Sunny Sunny Side

Author:Friedrich Schiller

“Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe.”

Knows Life Pleasure Tools Constant Foe

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Schiller (Illustrated)

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