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Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

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Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

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Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

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Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

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Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time.

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Age does not matter if the matter does not age.

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There is a joy in sorrow which none but a mourner can know.

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There are souls in this world which have the gift of finding joy everywhere and of leaving it behind them when they go.

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The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and evil are the result of the moral atmosphere they breathe.

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Variety of mere nothings gives more pleasure than uniformity of something.

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Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

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Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

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The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

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One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

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Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.

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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

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Love is the cheapest of religions.

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If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

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One must look for one thing only, to find many.

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The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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