Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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Man is an individual animal with narrow faculties, but infinite desires, which he is anxious to concentrate in some one object within the grasp of his imagination, and where, if he cannot be all that he wishes himself, he may at least contemplate his own pride, vanity, and passions, displayed in their most extravagant dimensions in a being no bigger and no better than himself.William Hazlitt
Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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The most fluent talkers or most plausible reasoners are not always the justest thinkers.
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No really great man ever thought himself so.
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I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.
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