“How many lives we live in one,
And how much less than one, in all.”
Life's Mysteries; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 442.
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Alice Cary 5
American writer 1820–1871Related quotes
“Of all the questions we can ask ourselves the most important is: how is one best to live?”
Source: Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God (2002), “Introduction” (p. xi)
Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 160
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Meditations (c. 121–180 AD), Book IV
“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”
Source: Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
“One can live magnificently in this world if one knows how to work and how to love.”
“In living, one learns how to read. (How, and with what result.)”
James Truslow Adams; sometimes rendered : "There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live".
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To "Be" or to "DO" Forum, Jun 1929; VOL. LXXXI, NO. 6
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Context: There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live. Surely these should never be confused in the mind of any man who has the slightest inkling of what culture is. For most of us it is essential that we should make a living... In the complications of modern life and with our increased accumulation of knowledge, it doubtless helps greatly to compress some years of experience into far fewer years by studying for a particular trade or profession in an institution; but that fact should not blind us to another—namely, that in so doing we are learning a trade or a profession, but are not getting a liberal education as human beings.