Our thought are the epochs in our lives all else is but a journal of the winds that blew while we were here.
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We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.Henry David Thoreau
Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties.
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The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
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If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
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No doubt another may also think for me but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself
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We hate the kindness which we understand.
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