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«It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life does not lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy of life lies in having no goal to reach.»
Author: Benjamin E. Mays
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Clergyman)
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About:
Goals,
Life
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Keywords:
bear in mind,
borne,
goal,
Having,
lie,
lies,
lie in,
no-goal,
reach,
reaching,
tragedy
«The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.»
«I have been asked on hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.»
Author: Billy Graham
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Keywords:
allows,
compassion,
confess,
hundreds,
in the midst,
mercy,
midst,
My own,
satisfaction,
sovereign,
sovereigns,
totally,
tragedy
«There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.»
«There is a thin line that separates laughter and pain, comedy and tragedy, humor and hurt.»
Author: Erma Bombeck
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Keywords:
comedies,
comedy,
humor,
humored,
humors,
laughter,
line,
separates,
thin,
thinned,
thinner,
thinnest,
thinning,
thins,
tragedy
«The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.»
«Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(
Inventor,
Philosopher,
Printer,
Scientist,
Statesman,
Writer)
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About:
Age,
Life,
Tragedy
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Keywords:
late,
soon,
Too late,
too soon,
tragedy
«There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy.»
Author: Mark Twain
(
Humorist,
Lecturer,
Writer)
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Keywords:
comedies,
comedy,
drama,
dramas,
dullest,
exterior,
impossibility,
There was,
tragedy,
uninteresting
«I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.»
«There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(
Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
fact,
facts of life,
future,
her,
Her husband,
husband,
invariably,
In a,
lover,
past,
past life,
real,
The Facts of Life,
The Lovers,
tragedy,
woman