The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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Be not a slave of words.
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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized By man ever dies, or can die but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
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I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .
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