You, and those like you, take your fill of pleasure on earth by making the life of such as me bitter and black with sorrow; and then it is a fine thing, when you have had enough of that, to think of securing your pleasure in heaven by becoming converted. (Alger William R.)
To live is not breathing it is action. (Alger William R.)
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. (Alger William R.)
The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences. (Alger William R.)
It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living. (Alger William R.)
Our affections as well as our bodies are in perpetual flux. (Alger William R.)
To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties - of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence. (Alger William R.)
For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life. (Alger William R.)
Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society. (Alger William R.)
Then Old Age and Experience, hand in hand,
Lead him to death, and make him understand,
After a search so painful and so long,
That all his life he has been in the wrong. (Alger William R.)
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could do for themselves. (Alger William R.)
Life is generally something that happens elsewhere. (Alger William R.)
Life is like a box of sardines and we are all looking for the key. (Alger William R.)
Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes. (Alger William R.)
A gentleman can live through anything. (Alger William R.)
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. (Alger William R.)
God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how. (Alger William R.)
Every cause produces more than one effect. (Alger William R.)
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. (Alger William R.)
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. (Alger William R.)
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. (Alger William R.)
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