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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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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...more

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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as c...more

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Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.

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There are few things we should keenly desire if we really knew what we wanted.

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One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.