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I always wished I had died, and I still wish that, because I could have gotten the whole thing over with.
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But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation.
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Don't forget your history, nor your destiny.
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Remember this— that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.
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Pleasure consists in the harmony between the specific excitability of a living creature and the exciting causes correspondent thereto.
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School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice?
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Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.
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As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
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Young man, there is America — which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world.
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I have never worked as hard as now. I go for a brief walk in the morning. Then I come home and sit in my room without interruption until about three o'clock. My eyes can barely see. Then with my walking stick in hand I sneak off to the restaurant, but am so weak that I believe that if somebody were to call out my name, I would keel over and die. Then I go home and begin again. In my indolence during the past months I had pumped up a veritable shower bath, and now I have pulled the string and the ideas are cascading down upon me: healthy, happy, merry, gay, blessed children born with ease and yet all of them with the birthmark of my personality.
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