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Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed.

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All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

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It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Nature

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This be the verse you grave for me: Here he lies where he longed to be;...

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The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

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O it's I that am the captain of a tidy little ship, Of a ship that goes a sailing on the pond; And my ship it keeps a-turning all around and all about; But when I'm a little older, I shall find the secret out How to send my vessel sailing on beyond. For I mean to grow a little as the dolly at the helm, And the dolly I intend to come alive; And with him beside to help me, it's a-sailing I shall go, It's a-sailing on the water, when the jolly breezes blow And the vessel goes a dive-dive-dive. O it's then you'll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds, And you'll hear the water singing at the prow; For beside the dolly sailor, I'm to voyage and explore, To land upon the island where no dolly was before, And to fire the penny cannon in the bow.

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To make our idea of morality center on forbidden acts is to defile the imagination and to introduce into our judgments of our fellow-men a secret element of gusto.

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Every one lives by selling something.

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Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.

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That man is a success who has lived well, laughed often and loved much.

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Marriage: A friendship recognized by the police.

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It is better to lose health like a spendthrift than to waste it like a miser.

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I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

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To believe in immortality is one thing, but it is first needful to believe in life.

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It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

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Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

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I've a grand memory for forgetting.

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If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong.

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There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

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I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.

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