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• Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, night is full of magnificence; and, for many, it is more brilliant than the day.

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  Night, Age, Magnificence

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• Old age is not one of the beauties of creation, but it is one of its harmonies.

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  Age, Harmony, Creation

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• What I value most next to eternity is time.

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  Inspirational, Next, Eternity

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• We expect everything and are prepared for nothing.

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  Expectations, Prepared

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• We do not judge men by what they are in themselves, but by what they are relatively to us.

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  Character, Men, Judging

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• There is nothing steadfast in life but our memories. We are sure of keeping intact only that which we have lost.

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  Memories, Lost, Steadfast

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• Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.

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  Ambition, Character, Mark

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• When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

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  Pieces, Riches, Silver

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• Might we not say to the confused voices which sometimes arise from the depths of our being: "Ladies, be so kind as to speak only four at a time?"

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  Confused, Voice, Insanity

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• There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time.

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  Encouraging, Perseverance, Power

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• One must be a somebody before they can have an enemy. One must be a force before he can be resisted by another force.

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  Enemy, Force

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• The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.

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  Inferiority, Flattery, Dangerous

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• Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.

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  Soul, Return, Indifference

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• Let us shun everything, which might tend to efface the primitive lineaments of our individuality. Let us reflect that each one of us is a thought of God.

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  Individuality, Might, Primitive

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• It is a little stream, which flows softly, but freshens everything along its course.

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  Littles, Flow, Moderation

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• Resignation is, to some extent, spoiled for me by the fact that it is so entirely conformable to the laws of common-sense. I should like just a little more of the supernatural in the practice of my favorite virtue.

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  Law, Practice, Common Sense

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• When fresh sorrows have caused us to take some steps in the right way, we may not complain. We have invested in a life annuity, but the income remains.

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  Sorrow, Complaining, Income

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• I love victory, but I love not triumph.

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  Victory, Triumph

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• If grief is to be mitigated, it must either wear itself out or be shared.

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  Grief, Sorrow, Ifs

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• Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

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  Vanity, Enemy, Dignity

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• There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

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  Germs, Action

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• Faith, amid the disorders of a sinful life, is like the lamp burning in an ancient tomb.

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  Faith, Life Is Like, Lamps

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• All the joys of earth will not assuage our thirst for happiness; while a single grief suffices to shroud life in a sombre veil, and smite it with nothingness at all points.

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  Grief, Joy, Veils

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• God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

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  Ignorant, Faults, Certain

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• Friendship is like those ancient altars where the unhappy, and even the guilty, found a sure asylum.

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  Friendship, Unhappy, Asylums

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