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Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.

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Each one's no longer consciousOf the high wall, or the rest:Since the one enduring fortress,Is the soldier's iron breast.If you’d live unconquered,Qui...more

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

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Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

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Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day

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To end the greatest work designed,A thousand hands need but one mind.

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If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.

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You are aware of only one unrest;Oh, never learn to know the other!Two souls, alas, are dwelling in my breast,And one is striving to forsake its broth...more

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No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or...more

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The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of oth...more

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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so ...more

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We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a ...more