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  That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

  William Wordsworth

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey" l. 34 (1798)

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• You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have truly lived are the moments when you have done things in the spirit of love.

  Henry Drummond

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Henry Drummond (2013). “Beautiful Thoughts from Henry Drummond”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• But trailing clouds of glory do we come, From God, who is our home: Heaven lies about us in our infancy!.

  William Wordsworth

  Lying, Home, Clouds

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Friendship, Sweet, Heart

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• Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?

  Marcel Marceau

  Love, Dream, Moving

  "Farewell, Marceau: the mime's best performances" by Chris Wiegand, www.theguardian.com. September 24, 2007.

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• Heaven lies about us in our infancy.

  William Wordsworth

  Baby, Lying, Heaven

  "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" l. 58 (1807)

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• Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

  Anna Letitia Barbauld

  Death, Good Night, Morning

  Anna Letitia Barbauld (2001). “Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.175, Broadview Press

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• Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Giving, Joy, Trying

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, Simon and Schuster

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• A horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

  Rossiter W. Raymond

  Sympathy, Condolences, Sight

  Attributed in "St. Andrew's Cross" edited by Hubert Carleton, Vol. XXIV, No. 12, (p. 12), September 1910.

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• Cherish all your happy moments.

  Margaret Moore

  Happiness, Gratitude, Being Thankful

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• You gain strength, courage, and confidence by doing the thing which you think you cannot do.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Fear, Cancer

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• Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Giving, Joy, Trying

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, Simon and Schuster

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• The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life

  Lucan

  Sympathy, Death, Men

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• Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

  Homer

  Life, Razors, Touching Love

  "Iliad". Poem by Homer, Book X. Translated by Samuel Butler, 1900.

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• When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention.

  E.F. Benson

  Happiness, Inner Peace, Attention

  E.F. Benson (2015). “Daisy's Aunt”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Lying, Generosity

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Kindness, Mean

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist.

  Stewart Alsop

  Death, Time, Sleep

  Stewart Alsop (2016). “Stay of Execution: A Sort of Memoir”, p.257, Open Road Media

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• To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Time, Memories

  Emily Dickinson, Frances Schoonmaker Bolin (1994). “Emily Dickinson”, p.7, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• When words are most empty, tears are most apt.

  Max Lucado

  Funeral, Tears, Empty

  Max Lucado (2010). “Chronicles of the Cross Collection”, p.56, Harper Collins

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• I walked a mile with Pleasure; She chattered all the way. But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow And ne'er a word said she; But oh, the things I learned from her When Sorrow walked with me!

  Robert Browning

  Learning, Grieving, Funeral

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• Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.

  Amelia Josephine Burr

  Life, Motivational, Death

  Amelia Josephine Burr, “A Song Of LIVIng”

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• I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

  Willa Cather

  Life, Death, Spiritual

  Death Comes for the Archbishop bk. 9 (1927)

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• We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.

  David Sarnoff

  Death, Fear, Funeral

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