“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston S. Churchill (1874–1965) Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
“Not what we would, but what we must
Makes up the sum of living;
Heaven is both more and less than just
In taking and in giving.”
The Country Life.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
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American poet 1825–1903Related quotes
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Public Lecture (2018)
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George Eliot book Middlemarch
Middlemarch (1871)
Context: What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? I cannot be indifferent to the troubles of a man who advised me in my trouble, and attended me in my illness.
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher
Original German: Man könnte den ganzen Sinn des Buches etwa in die Worte fassen: Was sich überhaupt sagen lässt, lässt sich klar sagen; und wovon man nicht reden kann, darüber muss man schweigen.
Introduction
1920s, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (1922)