Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
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What is meant by a knowledge of the world is simply, an acquaintance with the infirmities of men.Charles Dickens
In this way they went on, and on, and on--in the language of the story-books--until at last the village lights appeared before them, and the church spire cast a long reflection on the graveyard grass as if it were a dial (alas, the truest in the world) marking, whatever light shone out of Heaven, the flight of days and weeks and years, by some new shadow on that solemn ground.
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Shes the sort of woman now, said Mould, ... one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing and do it neatly, too.
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The two stand in the fast-thinning throng of victims, but they speak as if they were alone. Eye to eye, voice to voice, hand to hand, heart to heart, these two children of the Universal Mother, else so wide apart and differing, have come together on the dark highway, to repair home together, and to rest in her bosom.
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It is an old prerogative of kings to govern everything but their passions.
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