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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and adore.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your're the one who is smiling and everyone else is cr...more

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The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent.

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It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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For what avail the plough or sail, or land or life, if freedom fail?

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

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She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

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Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up

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Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

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To laugh often and much,to win the respect of the intelligent peopleand the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest criticsand endur...more

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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine.

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Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Ben...more