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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

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Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds.

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Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray.

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We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

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Live your life and forget your age.

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God is an unutterable sigh, planted in the depths of the soul.

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A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes anothers.

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I have made as much out of myself as could be made of the stuff, and no man should require more.

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What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

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Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

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For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted.

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Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

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There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof.

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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

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Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

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The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven.

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The darkness of death is like the evening twilight; it makes all objects appear more lovely to the dying.

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Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

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Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.

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Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.

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