"I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor."

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Source : Davy Crockett (1834). “A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett ...”

Davy Crockett

#Eye Quotes #Men Quotes #World Quotes

“It is important to make your own stuff. Even if you are not an actor, it is important to not stop involving yourself as a creative person.”
“The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.”
“Life is passing you by as you speak, you're on a path and you're all on the same path toward death.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The history of my life must begin by the earliest circumstance which my memory can evoke it will therefore commence when I had attained the age of eight years and four months.”
“Fighting for happiness is the hardest thing you'll ever fight for, but it's the only thing worth fighting for.”
“the success of a holiday depends on what you find for yourself on the spot, not what you bring with you.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2015). “Flight of a Witch”, p.207, Open Road Media
“The public doesnt care about my size. Its just something for the media to talk about.”
“One will meet, for example, the virtual assumption that what is relative to thought cannot be real. But why not, exactly? Red is relative to sight, but the fact that this or that is in that relation to vision that we call being red is not itself relative to sight; it is a real fact.”

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