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“the true joy of existence comes from living to one's highest.”
The sentence locates fulfillment in trying to live at one’s best level of character and capacity, making aspiration itself part of the purpose of life.
Source note: What All The World’s A-Seeking, Part III; Project Gutenberg #14312. Trine’s phrase is conduct-of-life counsel, not a claim that striving automatically removes hardship or produces happiness in every circumstance.
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“Life is a boundless privilege.”
The sentence frames existence as abundant possibility rather than mere duration, encouraging attention to what can still be learned, attempted, appreciated, and created.
Source note: The Conduct of Life; Emerson uses the line while describing life as an expanding field of experience rather than a narrowly fixed allotment.
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“Something had come to replace his hoard which gave a growing purpose to the earnings, drawing his hope and joy continually onward beyond the money.”
Voice: Narrator voice · Narrator
Money changes meaning when it serves a person rather than replacing relationship; caring for Eppie gives Silas’s work a forward-looking purpose that wealth alone had failed to provide.
Source note: Silas Marner; Eliot contrasts the former hoard with Eppie, whose needs and future redirect Silas’s earnings toward hope, relationship, and practical care.
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“I live in the hope of meeting with him”
The speaker continues to wait in hope despite an unfulfilled meeting, making expectation itself part of the devotional life rather than proof that fulfillment has already arrived.
Source note: Gitanjali, poem 13; Project Gutenberg #7164. The “him” is the poem’s spiritual addressee, so the record preserves devotional context instead of converting the sentence into a secular promise.
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“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!”
Voice: Fictional character · Caroline Bingley
The line is memorable as praise of reading, though its comic context matters because Miss Bingley says it while performing interest for Darcy.
Source note: Pride and Prejudice, Chapter 11; context is ironic.
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“But what a mockery our life would be, without a greater future!”
Hope for a larger future gives present life direction, even though the surrounding parable also cautions against pretending to know exactly what that future will be.
Source note: The Madman, parable of the pomegranate; one voice insists that life without future possibility would feel diminished.