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“He who postpones the hour of living as he ought, is like the rustic who waits for the river to pass along (before he crosses); but it glides on and will glide forever. [Lat., Vivendi recte qui prorogat horam Rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis; at ille Labitur et labetur in omne volubilis aevum.]”

Life Waiting Hours Forever Ought Rivers Crosses Rustic

Author:Horace

“Scientific reason, with its strict conscience, its lack of prejudice, and its determination to question every result again the moment it might lead to the least intellectual advantage, does in an area of secondary interest what we ought to be doing with the basic questions of life.”

Life Doe Reason Moments Might Interest Results Ought Intellectual Conscience Advantage Areas Determination Prejudice Strict

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“... religion (ought to be if it isn't) a great deal more than mere gratification of the instinct for worship linked with the straight-teaching of irreproachable credos. Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development--begun now and ending never.”

Ifs Life Made Action Life Is Religion Growth Deals Teaching Development Ought Worship Mere Instinct Linked Gratification Credo

Book:The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

Source: The Voice of Anna Julia Cooper: Including A Voice from the South and Other Important Essays, Papers, and Letters

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.”

Men Life Motivational Differences Animal History Laughing Human Nature Ought Laughter Pet Miscellaneous Humans And Animals

Author:William Hazlitt

“Lucy, dear child, mind your arithmetic. You know in the first sum of yours I ever saw there was a mistake. You had carried two (as a cab is licensed to do), and you ought, dear Lucy, to have carried but one. Is this a trifle? What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors.”

Knows Life Mind Firsts Children Two Science Life Is Mistake Saws Ought Horror Scene Dear Trifles Arithmetic Lucy Cab

Book:A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

Source: A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith

“Fill ev'ry glass, for wine inspires us, And fires us With courage, love and joy. Women and wine should life employ. Is there ought else on earth desirous?”

Life Should Earth Joy Courage Fire Inspire Ought Wine Glasses Courage To Love Women And Wine

Author:John Gay