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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

“Even a monotonously undeviating path of self-examination does not necessarily lead to self-knowledge. I stumble towards my grave confused and hurt and hungry.”

Doe Self Hurt Path Graves Hungry Confused Self Knowledge Examination Self-examination

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Times are changed with him who marries; there are no more by-path meadows, where you may innocently linger, but the road lies long and straight and dusty to the grave. Idleness, which is often becoming and even wise in the bachelor, begins to wear a different aspect when you have a wife to support.”

May Long Different Lying Support Path Wise Wife Changed Becoming Aspect Graves Idleness Meadows Bachelors

Author:Robert Louis Stevenson

“Men would not be so hasty to abandon the world either as monks or as suicides, did they but see the jewels of wisdom and faith which are scattered so plentifully along its paths; and lacking which no soul can come again from beyond the grave to gather.”

Men World Soul Path Suicide Graves Abandon Lacking Jewels Monk Hasty

Book:Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

Source: Martyria: A Legend, Wherein are Contained Homilies, Conversations, and Incidents of the Reign of Edward the Sixth

“The paths of glory at least lead to the Grave, but the paths of duty may not get you Anywhere.”

May Path Duty Glory Graves

Book:James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

Source: James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)

“All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.”

Heart Path My Heart Graves Betray Weary Cradle

Author:Eric Clapton