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Thomas Fuller
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
We are born crying, live complaining, and die disa
Thomas Fuller
Anatole France
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in sm
Anatole France
Eurípides
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Life is a short affair; / We should try to make it
Eurípides
Eurípides
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Alas!—but why Alas? / It is the lot of mortality w
Eurípides
Louise Erdrich
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
We all got holes in our lives. Nobody dies in a pe
Louise Erdrich
Ralph Waldo Emerson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
Life only avails* not the having lived.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Paul Laurence Dunbar
📝 Publication 21/04/2026
A minute to smile and an hour to weep in, / A pint
Paul Laurence Dunbar