What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
It is the lives we encounter that make life worth living.
It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.
Life is half spent before we know what it is.
Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
It seems to me that it's every man's obligation to make what contribution he can. You live each day as best you can. That, to me, is what makes life interesting.
Unless a man believes in himself and makes a total commitment to his career and puts everything he has into it - his mind, his body, his heart - what's life worth to him?
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