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Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.
John Lennon1940–1980Double Fantasy (1980), “Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)”Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost1874–1963Attributed in Ray Josephs, “Robert Frost’s Secret”, in William Nichols (ed.) Words to Live By (Simon and Schuster, 1959), pp. 172–73
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No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context
Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).
