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  • A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.

    Government   Law   Ideas  
    Theodore Parker (1871). “Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons”, p.41
  • A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

    Birthday   Fall   Men  
  • Concerning the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what sort of form they may have; there are many reasons why knowledge on this subject is not possible, owing to the lack of evidence and the shortness of human life.

    God   Knowledge   Mean  
  • because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

    Stars   Ambition   Arms  
    Mary Roberts Rinehart (2013). “The Red Lamp”, p.9, Overamstel Uitgevers
  • The vistas of possibility are only limited by the shortness of life.

  • It was long assumed that heart disease manifested the same in men and women. But Dr. Legato found that men may experience the classic symptoms of chest pain that radiates down the left arm. Women often have symptoms including shortness of breath, nausea or vomiting, and back or jaw pain. A gender-neutral approach left many women under-diagnosed and under-treated and as a result many women died needlessly.

    Pain   Heart   Men  
    Source: www.psychologytoday.com
  • Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.

  • the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long.

    'Henry IV, Part 1' (1597) act 5, sc. 2, l. 81
  • When we realize the shortness of life, we begin to see the importance of making every moment count.

  • As to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.

    Mean   Knowing   Religion  
  • So far are we generally from thinking what we often say of the shortness of life, that at the time when it is necessarily shortest we form projects which we delay to execute, indulge such expectations as nothing but along train of events can gratify, and suffer those passions to gain upon us which are only excusable in the prime of life.

  • No divine terror will ever be found in the work of the man who wastes a colossal strength in elaborating toys; for the first lesson that terror is sent to teach us is, the value of the human soul, and the shortness of mortal time.

    Men   Soul   Lessons  
    John Ruskin (1853). “The Stones of Venice: The fall”, p.144
  • I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.

    Country   Book   Night  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert like the fatigue of emotional experience. It's the weight of our consciousness of the world, a shortness of breath in our soul.

    Emotional   Soul   World  
  • Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

    Dorothy Osborne, Edward Abbott Parry (2014). “Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple, 1652–54”, p.165, Cambridge University Press
  • The shortness of life, which we all discuss, but which is very clear to me at the moment, makes keeping and spreading a joyful peace more crucial than ever before. Let us keep our minds on what matters, which is our work, which is astonishment and gratitude. From this quiet magic comes a power for all other new years wishes to come true.

  • Oh, I have now a mania for shortness. Whatever I read - my own or other people's works - it all seems to me not short enough.

  • Wherever there is light, there is shadow; wherever there is length, there is shortness; wherever there is white, there is black. Just like these, as the self-nature of things can not exist alone, they are called non-substantial.

    Light   Self   White  
  • Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

    Life   Elderly   Littles  
  • When we reflect on the shortness and uncertainty of life, how despicable seem all our pursuits of happiness.

    David Hume, Geoffrey Sayre-McCord “Moral Philosophy”, Hackett Publishing
  • To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom. It is not the part of men, but of fanatics, or of mathematicians, if you will, to say, that, the shortness of life considered, it is not worth caring whether for so short a duration we were sprawling in want, or sitting high. Since our office is with moments, let us husband them.

    Life   Wisdom   Time  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.207, Penguin
  • It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

    Life   Waste   Shortness  
  • Consider the shortness of time, the length of eternity, and reflect how everything here below comes to an end and passes by. Of what use is it to lean upon that which cannot give support?

    Giving   Support   Use  
  • The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all.

    "The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill".
  • Consider in what condition both in body and soul a man should be when he is overtaken by death; and consider the shortness of life, the boundless abyss of time past and future, the feebleness of all matter.

    Men   Past   Soul  
    Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.130, Enhanced Media Publishing
  • Abridge your hopes in proportion to the shortness of the span of human life; for while we converse, the hours, as if envious of our pleasure, fly away: enjoy, therefore, the present time, and trust not too much to what to-morrow may produce.

    May   Too Much   Fly Away  
  • No one who appreciates the shortness of this life and the eternality of the next can ever say, 'I'm bored'

  • No one is kept in poverty by a shortness in the supply of riches, there is more than enough for all.

    Riches   Poverty   Enough  
    Wallace D. Wattles (2015). “The Science of Wallace D. Wattles: The Science of Being Well, The Science of Getting Rich & The Science of Being Great – Complete Trilogy: From one of the New Thought pioneers, author of How to Promote Yourself, New Science of Living and Healing, Hellfire Harrison, A New Christ, How to Get What You Want and Jesus The Man and His Work”, p.15, e-artnow
  • I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn't noticed anything up until then.A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.

    Couple   Eight   Giving  
    "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.
  • The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.

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