We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.
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Philosophy finds it an easy matter to vanquish past and future evils, but the present are commonly too hard for it.
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Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being...
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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye.
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There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.
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True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
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One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.
