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“You cannot judge a man's life by the success of a moment, by the victory of an hour, or even by the results of a year. You must view his life as a whole. You must stand where you can see the man as he treads the entire path that leads from the cradle to the grave - now crossing the plain, now climbing the steeps, now passing through pleasant fields, now wending his way with difficulty between rugged rocks - tempted, tried, tested, triumphant.”

Source: The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan

“Perfect moments, especially when they verge on the sublime have the grave disadvantage of being very short lived, which in fact, being obvious, we would not need to mention were it not that they have a still greater disadvantage, which is that we do not know what to do once they are over.”

Knows Needs Stills Moments Facts Perfect Greater Obvious Graves Sublime Disadvantages Verge Short Lived Perfect Moments

Author:Jose Saramago

“No language can fitly express the meanness, the baseness, the brutality, with which the world has ever treated its victims of one age and boasts of the next. Dante is worshipped at that grave to which he was hurried by persecution. Milton, in his own day, was "Mr. Milton, the blind adder, that spit his venom on the king's person"; and soon after, "the mighty orb of song." These absurd transitions from hatred to apotheosis, this recognition just at the moment when it becomes a mockery, saddens all intellectual history.”

Source: Literature and life, lects

“Enthusiasm is grave, inward, self-controlled; mere excitement, outward, fantastic, hysterical, and passing in a moment from tears to laughter.”

Self Moments Tears Laughter Mere Graves Passing Passings Enthusiasm Fantastic Excitement Controlled Inward Hysterical

Book:Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

Source: Essays and Tales: Fragments from the travels of Theodore Elbert. Thoughts. Tales and apologues

“We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness.”

Whole Moments Life Is Death Dies Steps Painful Whole Life Graves Sickness Portions

Book:Sermons

Source: Sermons

“Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]”

Life Moments Life Is Steps Graves Instant Moments Of Life

Author:Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon