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What torments of grief you endured from evils that never arrived.

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A man is a god in ruins. When men are innocent, life shall be longer, and shall pass into the immortal, as gently as we awake from dreams.

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Give all to love obey thy heart.

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Faith and love are apt to be spasmodic in the best minds. Men live the brink of mysteries and harmonies into which they never enter, and with their ha...more

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Some of your hurts you have cured And the sharpest you still have survived But what torments of grief you endured From the evil which never arrived.

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The disease with which the human mind now labors is want of faith.

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There are some men above grief and some men below it.

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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

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All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

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We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

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A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

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We are wiser than we know.

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Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good sp...more

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Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.