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Woe to him that toils all his life
to comfort his heirs by his death!
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A man is more concerned about the loss of his money than of his days;
yet his money does not help and his days will never return.
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Who guards his mouth preserves his life.
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There is no remedy for a man who starts looking upon life with unrelieved pessimism.
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Who keeps a commandment keeps his life.
ID:1439
Great is repentance, for it reaches the Throne of Glory;...
for it brings Redemption;...for it lengthens a man's life.
ID:1458
Three keys are in God's hands, never delivered to an angel: one is of the resurrection of the dead.
ID:1485
In my life of vanity I have seen everything:
the righteous man perishing in righteousness,
and the wicked man living long in his evil-doing.
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The righteous are greater in death than in life.
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No righteous man passes away before one like him is created.
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When a righteous man is born, it is a boon to the world;
when one dies it is a bane.
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My days are like a passing shadow
and I wither away like the grass.
ID:1594
Man is just a breath whose days are as a passing shadow.
ID:1749
To stop thinking means to stop living.
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Draw from the past, live in the present,
work for the future!
ID:1943
Wine is as good as life to Man, if you drink it in its proper measure.
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This world is like an anteroom of the world to come.
ID:2032
God has created two worlds with a frontier between:
one for deeds and the other for rewards.
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This world is a raging ocean and you should imagine yourself always in a ship at sea.
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There is no good thing in this world which will not be better in the next.
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A young man has to live and an old man wants to.
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Why are our days numbered and not, say lettered?
ID:2083
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering -
and it's all over much too soon.
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My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.