"One of my favourite quotations is: 'That which thy father bequeathed thee, earn it anew, if thou wouldst possess it.'"
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"Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do."
"Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me."
"O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings"
"Yet while my Hector still survives, I see My father, mother, brethren, all in thee."
"I find my familiarity with thee has bred contempt."
"One word is too often profaned For me to profane it, One feeling too falsely disdained For thee to disdain it."
"Duty and dereliction guide thee back to solitude."
"Be as just and gracious unto me, As I am confident and kind to thee."
"We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted."
"Severally on the occasion of everything that thou doest, pause and ask thyself, if death is a dreadful thing because it deprives thee of this."
"All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee."
"Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be."
"It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell."
"There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee."
"Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee."
"Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee."
"Thank God when He lays a burden on thee, and thank Him when He takes it off."
"If ever any beauty I did see, Which I desired, and got, 'twas but a dream of thee."
"Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!"