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I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.
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I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.
The disappointment of manhood succeeds to the delusion of youth: let us hope that the heritage of old age is not despair.
To do something that you feel in your heart that's great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that's successful is a series of mistakes.
Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
Look up to the sky
You'll never find rainbows
If you're looking down.
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I was made at right angles to the world
and I see it so. I can only see it so.
As death, when we come to consider it closely, is the true goal of our existence, I have formed during the last few years such close relationships with this best and truest friend of mankind that death's image is not only no longer terrifying to me, but is indeed very soothing and consoling, and I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity... of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. I never lie down at night without reflecting that — - young as I am — I may not live to see another day. Yet no one of all my acquaintances could say that in company I am morose or disgruntled.