"My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave."
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"While life is in your body, you have the rein of all thoughts in your hands."
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"Hope is incredible to the slave of grief."
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"Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgment."
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