There is little proportion about either pain or pleasure a headache darkens the universe while it lasts, a cup of tea really lightens the spirit bereft of all reasonable consolations.
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You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
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Rapture of life ineffable, perfect--as if in the brier,
Leafless there by my door, trembled a sense of the rose.
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I know, indeed, of nothing more subtly satisfying and cheering than a knowledge of the real good will and appreciation of others. Such happiness does not come with money, nor does it flow from fine physical state. It cannot be brought. But it is the keenest joy, after all and the toiler's truest and best reward.
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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
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