"A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward."
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"A sky full of silent suns."
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"Universal love is a glove without fingers, which fits all bands alike and none closely; but true affection is like a glove with fingers, which fits one hand only, and sits close to that one."
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"Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out."
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"Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end."
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"Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another."
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"Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray."
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"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."
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"Each departed friend is a magnet that attracts us to the next world."
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"What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity."
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"Flowers never emit so sweet and strong a fragrance as before a storm. When a storm approaches thee, be as fragrant as a sweet-smelling flower."
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"Every man regards his own life as the New Year's Eve of time."
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"Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence."
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"Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed, must be interrupted."
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"There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul tread of some brutal hoof."
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"The miracle on earth are the laws of heaven."
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"Without God there is for mankind no purpose, no goal, no hope, only a wavering future, an eternal dread of every darkness."
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"Man has here two and a half minutes-one to smile, one to sigh, and a half to love: for in the midst of this minute he dies."
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"Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years."
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"Nothing is more beautiful than cheerfulness in an old face."
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