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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all ...more

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A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness; happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of...more

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There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

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We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard in order to sharpen the edge of ...more

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Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

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That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

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The fact of having been born is a bad augury for immortality.