Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
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Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.Pliny the Elder
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written in writing what deserves to be read and in so living as to make the world happier and better for our living in it.
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To laugh, if but for an instant only, has never been granted to man before the fortieth day from his birth, And then it is looked upon as a miracle of precocity.
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Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.
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Let honor be to us as strong an obligation as necessity is to others.
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