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/ page 978 of 1205 /It was better, he thought, to fail in attempting exquisite things than to succeed in the department of the utterly contemptible.
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There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms of life arise so shall his life be taken away before he knoweth that he hath it.
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If happy I and wretched he, Perhaps the king would change with me.
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Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.
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He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
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Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
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An arrow may fly through the air and leave no trace; but an ill thought leaves a trail like a serpent.
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Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.
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A truth that disheartens because it is true is of more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.
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Do we not all spend the greater part of our lives under the shadow of an event that has not yet come to pass?
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It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
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Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
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At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
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When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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Happiness is rarely absent; it is we that know not of its presence.
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To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.
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An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.
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They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
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How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.
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All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
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