“ As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me. ”
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“ Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so? ”
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“ Thus, then, I too became a dreamer with only one longing, the longing for wisdom, for that spirit touch which should open my eyes and enable me to see. ”
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“ Yea, all things live forever, though at times they sleep and are forgotten. ”
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“ Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pinetops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited today; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he knew are our familiar friendsthe end from which he fled aghast will surely overtake us also! Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever. ”
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“ And now let us love and take that which is given us, and be happy; for in the grave there is no love and no warmth, nor any touching of the lips. Nothing perchance, or perchance but bitter memories of what might have been. ”
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“ Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these manycoloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another! ”
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“ Strange are the pictures of the future that mankind can thus draw with this brush of faith and these manycoloured pigments of the imagination! Strange, too, that no one of them tallies with another! ”
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“ Man doeth this and doeth that from the good or evil of his heart; but he knows not to what end his sense doth prompt him; for when he strikes he is blind to where the blow shall fall, nor can he count the airy threads that weave the web of circumstance. Good and evil, love and hate, night and day, sweet and bitter, man and woman, heaven above and the earth beneathall those things are needful, one to the other, and who knows the end of each? ”
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“ Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ”
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“ Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so? ”
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“ Time after time have nations, ay, and rich and strong nations, learned in the arts, been, and passed away to be forgotten, so that no memory of them remains. This is but one of several; for Time eats up the works of man. ”
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“ ...Athiests, those spiritual destroyers, who in the name of progress and humanity would divorce hope from life and leave us wandering in a lonesome, self consecrated hell. ”
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“ There is no such things as magic, though there is such a thing as knowledge of the hidden ways of Nature. ”
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“ The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes. ”
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“ Adventurer" — he that goes out to meet whatever may come. Well, that is what we all do in the world one way or another. ”
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“ The law of England is much more severe upon offences against property than against the person, as becomes a people whose ruling passion is money. ”
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“ I love thee, Macumazahn, for we have grown grey together, and there is that between us that cannot be seen, and yet is too strong for breaking. ”
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“ As I grow older, I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me. ”
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“ The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes. ”
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“ It is curious to look back and realize upon what trivial and apparently coincidental circumstances great events frequently turn as easily and naturally as a door on its hinges. ”
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“ Men and women, empires and cities, thrones, principalities, and powers, mountains, rivers, and unfathomed seas, worlds, spaces, and universes, all have their day, and all must go. ”
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“ It is not wise to neglect the present for the future, for who knows what the future will be, Incubu? ”
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“ Laughter and bitterness are often the veils with which a sore heart wraps its weakness from the world. ”
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“ Let them be brought to the house of 'She-who-must-be-obeyed'. Bring forth the men, and let that which they have with them be brought forth also. ”
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“ From the east to the west sped the angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light with both their hands. ”
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“ From the east to the west sped the angels of the Dawn, from sea to sea, from mountain-top to mountain-top, scattering light with both their hands. ”
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“ The Almighty gave us our lives, and I suppose He meant us to defend them, at least I have always acted on that, and I hope it will not be brought up against me when my clock strikes. ”
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