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«I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.»
«I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
Author: Jack London
(Novelist, Writer)
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«The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.»
«The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.»
«When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the LORD thy God, to provoke him to anger: / I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.»
«Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it; / And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the LORD sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.»
«Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.»
«Ye shall walk in all the ways which the LORD your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.»
«What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life (Job 6:11)?»
«What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life? / Is my strength the strength of stones? or is my flesh of brass? / Is not my help in me? and is wisdom driven quite from me? / To him that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend; but he forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.»
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