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“Time Like a petal in the wind Flows softly by As old lives are taken New ones begin A continual chain Which lasts throughout eternity Every life but a minute in time But each of equal importance”

Life Lasts Time Taken Minutes Wind Equal Flow Eternity Importance Chains Time Passing Petals Time Passes Life Time Old Life

Author:Benjamin Franklin

“It's really important for people who are HIV positive to reach out to let other people know that they can be tested, they can find out they can still live a life -- a positive life, a happy life.”

“A trifle is often pregnant with high importance; the prudent man neglects no circumstance.”

Men Life Circumstances Importance Neglect Pregnant Trifles Prudent

Author:Sophocles

“One should not exaggerate the importance of trifles. Life, for instance, is much too short to be taken seriously.”

Life Should Taken Importance Instance Too Short Trifles

Author:Nicolas Bentley

“We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.”

Knows Men Life Wisdom Life Is Knowledge Wonderful Importance Cells

Author:Clarence Darrow

“The day you start giving importance to the life of even a little fly, you turn into a holy man!”

Men Life Giving Littles Turns Holy Importance Holy Man

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“What importance can we attach to the things of this world? Friendship? It disappears when the one who is liked comes to grief, or the one who likes becomes powerful. Love? it is deceived, fleeting, or guilty. Fame? You share it with mediocrity or crime. Fortune? Could that frivolity be counted a blessing? All that remains are those so-called happy days that flow past unnoticed in the obscurity of domestic cares, leaving man with the desire neither to lose his life nor to begin it over.”

“The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.”

World Life Littles Science Half Food Importance Convinced Unhappiness Apothecary

Book:Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith

Source: Wit and Wisdom of the Rev. Sydney Smith