That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true, or undeveloped. With books the same. The truest of...
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To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
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From without no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves unless some interior responding wonder meets it.
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All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, tha...
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All men live enveloped in whale-lines. All are born with halters round their necks; but it is only when caught in the swift, sudden turn of death, tha...
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Ignorance is the parent of fear.
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Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe tha...
